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Now I'm getting excited to have winners. I think I'm going to put all the names into a plastic empty milk jug. I'll shake it until one falls out. That will be how the winners get chosen. Is that as good as number generator. ? I think it is going to have to be. I'm not too technical here at Irisheyes. I don't use number generator. I don't use a comment counter. I don't have an i-pod (see my Barbie radio/head phones) I have a cell phone, but don't have occasion to use it much. SO we'll do a good old fashioned draw of the winners. Maybe I'll use the good old fashioned crock pot that day too. That's tissue holder number 2, in the image. Leftover Koigu, too precious to leave unused. I hear Mars may acquire the Tribune and the Cubs. Hmmmmm, chocolate and the Cubs. I like this combo. Candy for everyone.

Theses tulip colors would look great in a Norotype skein. I love how the colors sort of blend into each other. Such shading. Nice job mother nature. I'm worrying. My packages to swap friends seem to be traveling by Pony Express. The pony is also lame, apparently. And he doesn't swim the pond well either. I have sent my new friend Floozy, (Di) two wee tiny socks now, and neither has arrived in Europe yet. The second one sent had all the papers and insurance and blah blah blah. I have sent my Not Secret Sweep Swap her fun swap gifts and they haven't arrived to her yet either. This has never happened to me before. Is it the price of gas or something? I want to see them enjoy their gifts. Has anyone else noticed this happening? I send them U.S.P.S. I go to nice Post offices where the employees are helpful and concerned.......

Here she is, Miss America! Look at that colorway Lynn chose for sweet Katie's clapotis. I have another image to post of it, but I dont want to try posting two at once.....I'm just grateful Blogger smiles on me once again....Lynn oh Lynn oh irisheyes Lynn what yarn did you choose to use? We must know. I'm still knitting tissue covers......cover #2 is well underway. I might branch out and put a faux cable patten on the next one....well, probably not. But, isn't it a fine idea? I need a little cable practice. I'm still having fun with: the contest post finding funny things for the winners to go with the yarn reading all your blogs and your blogs blogs entering other's contests On that note, I have to tell you that I named the family Rooster on a knitter's contest blog and won! I named their handsome white Rooster: Russell Crowe. hee hee heee heee I get a prize next week. Oh I love to be the clever one! have a funtastic friday.

I am having problems with Blogger :( I haven't been able to post an image for 24 hours or more. This is particularly upsetting because I have LOVELY photos of irisheyes' lynn's latest Clapotis. It is really a beauty. Made for her daughter Katie. Her College daughter got the first one Lynn made. I can't wait to show it to you. so, here's a poem and here's to blogger letting me show pictures again soon. OH WOE THE HALF POST Oh knitters, how the post doth fade wheneth imagesless. Thou fair and lovely readers, poster, lurkers Beg you I, boot up and revisit this meager bloggers realm again. for to knit without boasting bemoaning bemusing befuddles me. oh endeth soon this blogger image drought.

I've got a bad rotten bug. My thoughts are surounded by tissues. Would you like a tissue? This little gem is a tissue cover I made with leftover sock yarn using KMKAT.typepad.com 's easy Library fundraiser pattern. This one is for my mom. She always had a tissue for us in church, in the car, wherever. Finally, in my midlife I, too, have become a tissue carrier. So tthese two bugs bit me and I am itching to knit more of these covers with leftover sock yarns. Strange bug. I've never wanted to knit with leftovers so badly. I didn't even mind the seaming. The other bug is rotten. I'm off to pick up a prescription now. Finally, I killed a bug on Earth Day. What must this mean? There was a wasp on the back porch this afternoon. I whacked him several good times a la magazine technique. Then I crunched him beneath my birkenstocks to be really certain he was dead. I am normally very very good and kind and Earth loving. really....

in Aran weight. Al is making this sweater for Fireman daddy. Deadline: Fall 08. Al can only find time to knit Sat a.m. from 9-11 during one of her classes. I admire her sticktuitiveness. I know many of you work on a certain thing at certain times and that makes a FO over time. I'm such the impatient knitter, but I suppose if that was the only time I had to knit, it could see me through. I took the photo in the little blue spring flowers to highlight the blue flecks in the charcoal yarn. See 'em. Go ahead squint. Or enlarge the picture. The contest has been such a fun thrill for me. I so love going to littleknowns like me and reading their blogs. Full of incredible knits, full of wisdom, full of their own unique style. The biggest surprise is that Rachel O. is a junior high lurker. Well sometimes commenter, she thinks! Now Rachel O, I adore that you read the blog for a little levity. Now Rachel O, we have to protect your identity and all but tell your mom I...

If we can have an earthquake and a cougar in the same week in Chicago, then perhaps we CAN have a Cub World Series this year. We won the World Series 100 years ago in 1908. I love Wrigley Field, otherwise known as the Friendly Confines. You can have a wonderful time there without winning the World Series. You can have a pretty darn good time here at Irisheyesknitters Confines too. In fact, I host this blog and it means a pretty darn good time to me. Within these confines, I meet and enjoy you . I'm giving away sock yarns. The Filatura Dicrosa Maxime yarn knits up into the cutest fairisle. THe Plymouth Yarn Happy Feet superwash merino Wool with 10% nylon has no name so I'll call it Mixed Berry Pie. Those who visit the friendly confines of Irisheyes pretty regularly will be in a seperate category. You know who you are! One of you will win your choice of those two yarns, two skeins of either, and some wild and fun additional goodies to be shown later. Those who lurk...