Mossy Cottage Knits

Phew!

(Note to self: Next time? Don’t read Yarn Harlot’s new entry before writing yours. Her brand of inimitable humor will make you question yourself, question why you blog, make you want to delete all 2+ years of Mossy Cottage, quit knitting, sell your house, and become a hermit. I think this is the adult equivalent of saying, “You’ll see. You’ll see. I’ll...I’ll run away from home and then I’ll die, and then you’ll have to come to my funeral, and then you’ll be sorry!”)

What a wacky two days its has been juggling all the requests for tickets! By 2pm yesterday, I felt like the many-armed boiler room attendant in the movie “Spirited Away,” watching dials, pushing buttons, pulling cords, pulling levers, adding coal—but all 52 tickets have now officially been assigned to good homes, thanks to mountains of help from MaryBee and her last-minute ordering of 10 more tickets. For a list of names and the number of tickets reserved for each person, see the end of the last blog entry. MaryBee and I will be contacting the recipients with information about how to pay and how to get their tickets once we have it all figured out.

In the meantime, if you didn’t get a ticket, dunna’ fret: Anyone who wants to get a ticket in the Stitch & Pitch seating area can do so directly through the Mariners. According to the flyer they gave us, what you need to do is, quote:

1. E-mail the Mariners at StitchGroup@seattlemariners.com.
2. Within two business days, you will receive an e-mail invitation to the special Stitch ’n Pitch discounted game.
3. Via your e-mail invitation, you will be able to select your seat location, make the payment, and print your tickets from your computer.

…unquote.

Rumor has it that 900 seats have already been sold. 900 knitters and their friends, spouses, SO’s and kiddos. Who woulda thunk?! Assuming that 75% of the attendees will be actual knitters, that translates into 675 projects, 675 circular needles, or 1,350 straight needles, or 2,700 dpns, or 3,375 dpns, if you use all five. Oh, and one crochet hook.

Okay, coming back in from the outfield...

Some great photos of Dulaan items are still trickling in. Here, from Cathy, two hooded scarves, eleven hats and seven scarves. Not in the picture, the six fleece blankets she also made!

And from Jane and her friend Sandy who knit the green hat, this pile of wooly goodness:

This is a Zud Hat from MaryLee, she of the child who says MongoLEEa. And, no, the bag isn't a social statement, just her latest container for all her knitting bits and pieces.

Here is an eye-searingly awful photo of one of the last items I made for Dulaan, a vest. I pray to God that somewhere, somewhere in Mongolia there is one homeless, orphaned and yet overfed, obese and short-waisted child because this vest came out cute but short and very, very wide. Dear TMK tried to console me by saying, “They could wear it over something else and be extra warm,” but, no, this vest is very, very wide. Very.

But at least the buttons are cute:

And, lastly, apropos of nothing, a photo for Norma:

Posted by Ryan at June 24, 2005 11:19 AM