Mossy Cottage Knits

Kooky Krafts Return!

An email from Dear Reader Melinda about a kooky “sport” reminded me that I haven’t posted any Kooky Krafts lately so today I offer this. Looking at this picture, I can't help but imagine some well-meaning hostess placing a very hot, too-large casserole or tureen in the center, and then lifting it up to find the swans' heads steaming gently and squashed flat onto the doily. And that makes me snort my morning hot chocolate out of my nose. Which wouldn’t be so bad, except it’s the kind with the tiny marshmallows in it. Ow.

In fairness to the site, I do recommend you explore it a bit because they sell beautiful aran sweaters (but, alas, none with three-dimensional swans protruding from them).

Knitting Knews
Here, a photo of Nametag #2, the one I actually wore to Guild.

This closeup isn’t particularly flattering because you can see the untidy stitches the stiff gold thread makes (and the hair Frankie so lovingly left in the lower right-hand corner) but, hey, it's certainly legible. Curiously enough, due to the difference in gauge between the all-wool back and the wool-and-thread front, I had to make the back four stitches smaller than the front but they both blocked out parfaitement.

For more discussion of the Guild nametag project, see Dear Reader and Guild Newsletter Editor Karen's current blog entry.

Tonight I’m sitting in with a new local knitting group, the Feral knitters. Fair Isle, Feral…get it? I’m not surprised these ladies came up with a unique moniker for themselves since they are a particularly bright and funny bunch which includes Dear Reader Janine and Sheila of FiberRavenSoiree. Since I am not Feral (well, perhaps in the sense of being a wild and crazy gal, yes, but not in the Fair Isle/Feral sense), I don’t know how comfortable I'll feel in the group, but if they don't mind my panting and fawning over their projects and asking for the occasional autograph, we should get along just fine.

Posted by Ryan at February 23, 2004 10:06 AM