Hello? Hello? Anyone there?

Wow, look at this place, covered in dust and cobwebs! It's a wonder if no one comes by here anymore with the place looking like this! Feh!

I've been doing a lot of "little" knitting, starting at the end of January with my son's DK wool socks (which he put on and has taken with him to the army and they haven't been seen or heard from since), then the Outgrown Baby Gift Sweater for my grandniece



another kippah from my pattern with lots of new, how-to pictures in the Kippalong set on flickr


and then a cozy for my mp3 player

V2Cozy is nearly complete and I like it much better. Pictures soon!

I'm now starting a Girlfriend Shrug by Wendy for the grandniece and then I'm going to try my hand at a new knitted kippah pattern, the Keppie by Pamela, a great Bukhari style kippah and all-around goodlooking headcover! If you are having trouble downloading the pattern from her link, try right-clicking on the link she gives and save it to your hard drive and then open it.

For those of you who like your kippot small and on the flat side, Joanne Seiff, designer of the silk scullcap/kippah that appeared in Interweave Knits, Summer 2002, on Page 96 and now out of print, has designed a new kippah, which she has available for sale on her site.

Two new kippah patterns for knitters in one year. That's an increase of 100%!

Christmas...er, contests?

As if the pressure of finishing handknitted Christmas presents wasn't enough, if you haven't seen these yet and are interested, hurry up and get in on The Knitting Curmudgeon's "Christmas Crap-Along" and Waltzing Knitilda's "Ugliest Christmas Sweater 2005" contests. Some Luscious Yarn is being given away as prizes in both cases.

(As if you need a reminder about how prickly some knitters get at this time of year, go read "Holiday Stress and Knit Nonsense" over on my Knit Natterings page.)

So Quiet You Could Hear a Size #00000 Knitting Needle Drop

As you can see, things are pretty quiet around here. We're either so busy working on projects that we don't have the time to write about it or not working on projects at all, so don't have anything to write about.

For myself, I'm finally getting around to knitting the pair of plain old, ribbed socks that my son in the Navy asked me for (gulp) nearly a year ago. If I don't hurry up and get them done, he'll be discharged before he's had a chance to wear them! With European size 44 feet (US size 10), that is a bit of knitting to do.

The weather here certainly hasn't been an inspiration to knit. With the exception of a couple of cold days and a rainy day, we've had nothing but warm, sometimes hot, and dry weather. That's one of the upsides of living here on the coast, but it certainly doesn't give you that same urge to knit like my old home state of Minnesota's sub-zero temperatures.

Pictures to come.

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