Mossy Cottage Knits

My poor Blog Mistress. Everyone is allowed an off day, even in knitting. You'll be right as rain soon enough. But the thought of anyone actually wanting to kick you out of ANYTHING made me giggle. Yeah, like that's gonna happen.

Have a great day!!

Navy buttons would be waaaay cool on the vest, esp if the centers were painted lime green...

Hi Ryan! I'm glad you drop a note. Iwould knit more for Dulaan but I have sooooo many people in family who have requests and... you know you can't choose family.
Don't get me wrong, but Croatia is not in Yugoslavija for 15 years!

P.S. Is it OK if I put some knitting stuff from others (this ites are not hand knitted - they are bought)?

Sandra, shame on me for not remembering that Croatia is not part of Yugoslavia anymore!! Thank you for correcting me on that. I am so embarrassed.

As for whether your friends can send other items, absolutely!! F.I.R.E., the sponsoring organization, needs any kind of donations you can send: Money, blankets, knitted items, non-knitted items, etc. The Dulaan Project is just a small part of what they do.

Tanya, we're thinking alike! Navy buttons would look great, especially if I can find some that pick up the lime green. I did find some beautiful dichroic glass buttons at my LYS that matched the navy blue perfectly, but the buttons were $5 each--and I couldn't see spending more $$ on the buttons than I had spent on the yarn, especially since I know that, due to circumstances, these clothes won't be treated particularly well. I think a visit to JoAnne Fabrics is in order.

Stalker Angie, while I very much appreciate your loyalty, don't you think it's even the *slightest* bit ridiculous that in the space of an hour I had forgotten buttonholes I had made *myself?* :-)

Off to change "Yugoslavia" to "Croatia!"

Pffft. Has nothing to do with loyalty. So there. It just so happens that while I was knitting a Dulaan hat, I set my knitting down (out of reach of the Demon Dog), walked into the kitchen to get a drink and when I got back I was furious. My knitting was shrinking!! How was I losing stitches? I was near tears when it dawned on me I had reached the decrease section at the top. Buttonholes are nothing. I was only gone from this hat for 3 minutes.

Got a nice little giggle over the buttonholes! :) That's something I would do! Have 10 FOs in the Dulaan box now and another one on the needles. The bright colors vests sounds great. Have a good weekend all!

Big, loud, guffaw, Stalker Angie! Love your story! Yep, that's exactly what my buttonhole experience was like. Somehow we manage to make ourselves believe the absolutely unbelievable.

You go, Sheri! I think the vest is item #9 or #10 for me, too.

Yes, garter stitch REALLY eats yarn. I'm remaining mute on the whole buttonhole thing. Because it really is too funny for words. :-P

I love the colorblock idea. I'm still thinking, though, of trying to design a similar vest using bulky yarn, in stockinette rather than garter (eats less yarn and goes faster IMHO.) I have all that dark brown bulky I want to use up -- plus now some kiwi.

Maybe that garter stitch eating yarn thing is the reason for the bad chi (and what does chi mean, anyway?).
About stash and your comment on my blog: you must understand that once someone has held a bag of your yarn overnight, the rules say it is technically THEIRS and can no longer be returned to the original owner....

Had I but known, Ryan. I have that shade of lime green Cascade in my stash. Oh, and I am indirectly from Croatia. It is the land of my father's family. There is a little village in the vicinity of Dubrovnik that bears my family's name: Miletic (with that funny accent thing on the c. It was Americanized at Ellis Island to Miltich, my maiden name).

Of course you're called to knitting. No dilletante could have made those beautiful, yellow mittens. Let's face it, garter stitch is boring and the sub-layers of our minds distract us in many ways.

Knit on, sister!

My sister actually had a really pretty polar fleece vest which was navy and lime green. Navy outside, lime green inside with lime green hem tape all around the arm holes, hem, etc and a lime green zipper. It was really nice!

Hey! I found a simple, easy, but I think cute, vest pattern written for bulky. http://www.knitting-crochet.com/quipulovetop.html

I may just have to make one in the sable brown, the kiwi, and maybe even stripe those two colors. ;-)

I made a vest too, Ryan, the Green Mtn Spinnery Artisan vest and am knitting a second one with Mission Falls Wool. Because the buttonholes on my (Dulaan)vests are crocheted on, I did not make your mistake, but otherwise,I really could see myself ripping and then thinking it through too!

hi...thanks for the new Dulaan patterns...I'm passing them along to my knitting buddies that are working on Dulaan projects. take care

Forget about knitting button holes? I forgot where I put my glass of water one time. I was looking all over for it and actually getting quite frantic when I asked my daughter if she had seen it. She pointed to my hand and calmly asked if that was it in my hand!!! Sheesh!

Ah, I'm afraid I've been a little remiss in my Dulaan work personally, but my mother and sister, two of my fellew SNB'ers and two ladies from another craft group I attend have also knitted things after I told them about Dulaan and flashed flyers around.

I must get a count on it all and get it ready to send away, I'm not sure how long parcel post to America is!

From the Woman in Tasmania!