Tuesday, December 11, 2007:

This is a really cute knitted kitty toy (a toy that's a kitty, not a toy for a kitty, I assume), and of course I would never buy this kind of thing as a kit -- would anyone pay $72 to the materials to knit a toy?? Even without the needles it would be over $60 just for the yarn and pattern book. I might buy the book, but if I were to make this, I'd definitely make it from scraps in my stash.

Friday, November 30, 2007:

I went to the post office the other night to mail a package, and bought some stamps from the automated machine. I expected regular stamps, but got holiday stamps. Without my glasses, I couldn't really tell that they were anything other than pixelated holiday images, but it turns out that they're knitted holiday images.

From the USPS website:

For the 2007 holiday season, the U.S. Postal Service will issue Holiday Knits, four stamps featuring classic Christmas-time imagery designed and machine knitted by nationally known illustrator Nancy Stahl: There is a dignified stag; a snow-dappled evergreen tree; a perky snowman sporting a top hat; and a whimsical teddy bear.

Monday, September 24, 2007:

Briefly -- I put up about a dozen new sets of stitch markers in my Etsy shop. Most of them are semi-precious stones (Amazonite, Prase, Turquoise, Sugilite), with a few Czech glass items. I have a few more sets to photograph and post later in the week. See pictures of some of them in the left-hand column. More later.

Wednesday, September 05, 2007:

Strange Horizons Fiction: The Leaving Sweater, by Ruth Nestvold:

The leaving sweater was made of scraps of leftover red wool—many different shades of red. And many different qualities of yarn, from mohair to raw silk to cotton and linen mixes. And many different stitches, from ribbed to open work to waterfall to butterfly. Although it had been a decade now, Vicky could still remember watching her mother make it as a present for Vicky's high school graduation—before she was to go away to college.

"I don't want to leave Rolynka," Vicky had said, her arms wrapped around her skinny legs as she watched the needles fly in her mother's hands and the strands of wool take shape.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007:

A t-shirt I found in Second Life:

Thursday, June 07, 2007:

I love this:

Masquerade

and:
Knitta

Makes me want to knit a cozy for . . . something.

My friend Kurt sent the link to me, and he said, "I'm gonna walk outside some dy and see a telephone pole knitted up, aren't I?" Yup.