November 28, 2006
The folks over at
Haunted
String are sorting out the details for their First Annual April Fool
Challenge! They're going to bring to crocheted life to a
well-known character from another artistic source, be it literature,
movies, song, television, paintings, and so on. There'll be prizes
(hand spun yarn is just one) and voting and plenty to oooh and aaah
about! If you crochet, dude, get over there!
So, Manservant
extracts himself from his computer workroom (the la-bor-atory)
long enough to sit with me for a bit (only because I complained that I
never see him anymore other than at the dinner table) (and he comes to
sit with me at the exact moment I'm writing a pattern for socks and
don't need to be disturbed). I suddenly smell a smell. "What
is that?" I ask. "What's what? I don't smell
anything." he said, but with a sheepish, shyish grin. "Were
you cleaning the toilet?" Foolish question ... as if. And
then it struck me and I almost died. The poor guy had put on
aftershave! "Cuz, if you were cleaning the toilet, man, I love
that cleaner!"
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November 27, 2006
Returned!
It's nice to have the web back and in use. The move was tiring,
but we've now been in the new house for 3 months and it feels like home!
The neighbours are bizarre (said one, "We won't be socializing with you
because 4 other neighbours have accused me of having affairs with their
husbands.") Welcome to the neighbourhood! Not that I'd
really want to hang out with such a legacy anyway though Manservant
might have been a tad curious. Miweeshe believes the house across
the street is filled with polygamists and I'm not so sure she's wrong.
Such is life in the teeniest of villages.
 I
finished my scarf and posted a rough pattern
here. The scan didn't come out well and it looks all wonky and
hokey. It's actually really nice, all textured and soft and
looking like it's been knitted. Truthfully, the edging I've
included in the pattern looks like hell ... but it was late, I was
grumpy with the dog for being no further than minus 3 inches from my
side all day long and Manservant was grumpy with me for being grumpy
with the dog. Meh, is all I have to say about that. Meh!
But I love my scarf!
The sock pattern
is coming along nicely. It's not the perfect crocheted sock
pattern yet and there's tweaking on the menu, but by the new year I
should have it ready.
And not least of
all, my felted mitten pattern is on the way. There'll be plenty of
fiddling with that one, more so than the socks even, but those that
don't work out size-wise will be donated to our local Mitten Tree.
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