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I cannot stop with this logcabin blanket. It is all I want to knit. The last time I showed it to you, I believe it was in the hands of our brave heroes. I believe I was on the first block of black. Since then the blanket has been to an outing. I went to the Rockies game in Chicago this week. The folks in their season ticket seats were so nice about my knitting. The first drunk man said, "are you expecting?" to me The second drunk man said, "man I oughta learn to do that instead of stuffing my face" and the third drunk man said, "My fiance can't sit still, like you. She comes to all my hockey games and knits. I believe all were compliments. I was wearing my NY yankee pink hat at the Major League game. Needless to say, nothing else is getting knitted around here, save for the quick crochet finish on Mr. Coopers coat. My Minnesota transplanted sis won't get the vest until fall I am afraid. Not only have I deserted her gift due to the log cabin obse...

Meet Mr. Cooper. Our dog trainer's new puppy. He is at a fitting for his new winter/fall dogcoat. The pattern: Fringe benefits, from Jill Eaton's Puppy Knits book. The yarn: Encore. Washable wool, of course. Al and I worked on this together. 99.9% work done by Al. I crocheted the verticals lines. I think Al knit this in 2 days. Who doesn't love a deadline? I was crocheting the lines on the way to Gee's house. Mr. Cooper is part PBGB and part something else. Gee has had Doberman's her entire life. What a change for Gee. Oh Al and I left off the fringe collar by choice. Mr. Cooper is fringey enough. Question: How do YOU wash your socks? Regular detergent? Vinegar rinse? I love Kookaburra but I'm out and I'd like to wash some socks quick. Thanks!

splatgirl creates: Cookie Baking 101: So You Think You Know How To Bake Cookies? Look out. I found a link linker......and I may finally be able to make an edible cookie. You never know what the day will bring you. Too bad it is so dang hot here and I don't like to turn the a/c on. Soon, I'm going to try her tricks with cookies soon....... Now Bianca of Lansingerland has made something so incredible I won't even say what. Try this link. She is amazing. http://lansingerland.blogspot.com Al and I are working on a gift knit together. Hopefully we will finish it by tomorrow for the *party*

Emily at YarnMiracle link was my Garden Swap partner. What a great swap. She sent (in a package race no less) simply gorgeous Lorna's Laces Purple Irish and Claudia's Handpaint Bearded Iris sock yarns. Matching purple and green stitch markers. The best old kind; the kind that don't stick to your knitting. The cookies are not just Chessman, but double chocolate Milano. Ya-huh. There is a little box of some of the best chocolates to pass these lips: vermont chocolates. The ergonomically correct spade and delightful garden basket will be put to sweet use soon. Emily, thank you. All of it is wonderful. Sock knits here I come. Note to self: Hide Bearded iris claudia handpaint from Al..... Why do a swap? Well, some of us are just wild adventurers, that's all. We live dangerously in the world of knitting. Things like Mail, delight us. And we meet the nicest people.....all the way from Bay Minette Alabama.

Knitters liscence. Al frogged her Koigu baby sweater. I bit my lower lip as she unravelled it. She's fickle you know. She's in love with the Koigu Garden Party Shawl that I posted about awhile ago. (I went to a Garden party......I love Ricky Nelson) See you can't please everyone so you got to please yourself.... Since I am practicing my links, again, have you every been to Oh Happy Day? link I fell in love with a cake there once......

I'm practicing. I'm practicing. Practice makes perfect. Practice makes Kim from link may stay sane. Karen of link has tried to help me with this in the past as well. We knitbloggers are a sweet and helpful group. I bet we are the sweetest bloggers out there in the blogosphere. I plan to watch the shuttle and the station tonight around 950 Chicago time in the clear sky. Since I don't fly, I find it astounding that there are PEOPLE in those little lights so far up. Other lights not so far up, of the firefly kind, are amusing me these days. Cidada's dare I say, are getting softer.....

I am trying to link again. Kim from Knitswithasilentk is real time helping me. I hope she does not get fired. I find this very difficult, but with Kim I am getting there. What a great person to hold me by the blogging/knitting hand and personally help me succeed. I promised her I would practice. So I am going to do that after dinner. Thank you all for your great suggestions as I have tried to master this in the name of ease for you commentors, readers, lurkers and relatives forced to read the blog. (Relatives aren't very consistent, except for AL!) Al gets cold easily. On a recent cool evening, she was on the phone, watching TV, and finishing her sweater at the same time. My brain hurts thinking about finishing and talking at the same time. Ah, youth.