Inshallah

I do not understand how this vendor ...

A) gets off charging $3.50 for a rewrite of Barbara Walker's Dayflower Lace pattern*

B) has the nerve to state on the shop policies page: YOU MAY NOT COPY THE PATTERN FOR TRANSFER OR SALE OF ANY SORT, EITHER IN PHYSICAL OR DIGITAL FORM, AS THIS IS A VIOLATION OF U.S. COPYRIGHT LAW. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Don't we, as a creative community, have a duty to blow the whistle on that kind of thing?

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*This is one of my favorite lace panels ... I worked it into a stunning pair of gauntlets for brdgt, and would never dream of selling my pattern for profit because HELLO IT'S NOT MY PATTERN ... but you can totally have it if you want.

I don't understand this at all.

After three beers, my gauge is utterly fucked.

Also this weekend:
* raspberry lambic at the Folly!
* 80's karaoke and matzoh ball soup!
* magic tricks accompanied by blue-grassy Social Distortion!

It was a good weekend.

But now I wonder, about those 76 virgins promised to virtuous men in heaven by the Koran, when you de-virginize one, do you get a new one to replenish your stock in order to keep the number constant? Or does her virginity grow back every night, like Prometheus's liver? Or is 76 simply the number you are given to start out with, and what you do with them is up to you?

It is 76 virgins, right? Like trombones, leading the big parade?

this is interesting

Also, do virtuous women also get 76 72 virgins? Because I've been with enough virgins to tell you that showing 72 nervous teenagers how to negotiate the clitoris is not my idea of heaven.

For several years now, knitting guru Annie Modesitt has been my crafting idol with her innovative designs, creative techniques, and all-around awesomeness.

Recently her husband was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, a form of blood cancer that manifests in the bone marrow, and her family needs our help.

Read more about it at Annie's blog, on the Red Carpet Convertible Page.

I used this pattern and Crash Into Ewe sock yarn on size 2 needles, and stuffed it with a balloon filled with 1/2 cup of lentils.

It's an ideal stress-squeezie thing. I can't put it down. It would also make great juggling balls, and hacky sacks, should such a concept ever come back into vogue.

I'm delighted with how it turned out, although if I were to market them I'd have to modify the pattern somewhat.

( side view )

I may be kicked out of the Lace Club for saying this (first rule of Lace Club is, never talk about Lace Club) but it is just so fricking easy. Really. It is. Here's that melon stitch (appropriately rendered in Midori green mohair in Victorian Lace Today), here done in a shiny gray cotton worsted I found in a box somewhere in my dining room:



( closeups )

Nah, you know what's hard? Finding specific words in Arabic calligraphy. Anybody know Arabic?

Here is the Swallowtail Shawl from the Fall '06 (I think) Interweave Knits. Made with Morehouse Merino laceweight wool in Mermaid and trimmed with blue glass beads.



Actually, I finished it last November, but just got around to blocking it yesterday

( closeup )

also, I finally finished my Fanning the Flames mittens:


made with Shaeffer Anne yarn and size 1 needles

I love them. Especially the cuffs.

yeah, I knit a Jayne hat.

I am rather proud of it, though. It came out well. I used Paton's Classic Merino Wool, one skein Paprika and two skeins Winter White; four packets of orange kool-aid for the orange and eight packets of lemonade kool-aid for the yellow.

I used this pattern, more or less, except I cast on 80 stitches, did the 2x2 rib with size 8 DPNs and the rest with size 10, and double-stranded the yarn.

Started working on Clapotis this weekend ...



The yarn is Blue Heron Cotton Rayon Ribbon in the Dusk colorway, which in the skein looked like a Tiffany window.