December 03, 2007
Two Down, Hopefully Many To Go!
Just a mini-entry today to say I'm so excited: The first two Baby Harris items have landed! The first is an it’s-so-adorable-I’ll-have-trouble-giving-it-away-even-for-a-good-cause red elephant made and donated by Marti, and the second is a pair of aquamarine socks, made using one of Cat Bordhi’s new patterns, donated by…
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Drat and double-drat! I don’t remember who gave them to me, and I know in the back of my addled and slightly vertiginous brain that it’s someone I know well! If it’s you, please chime in. <Update! They were donated by Sarah! Which, in a way, makes this all extra embarrassing because guess who I sat with that night at Guild?)
Not only that but all I could squeeze out this morning was a truly atrocious photograph so my apologies (but doesn’t the cuteness of the elephant just slice right through all the blur?):
Fortunately, Marti has a truly adorable photo of the elephant here.
I will be at Ferals tonight if there are any Feralites who have things they want to hand off. Don't count on this. Apparently Bothell is having major flooding problems, thanks to today's lovely record-breaking weather (in fact, per the news, the Governor just declared a state-wide emergency). However, I will try go get up there. Perhaps you can stand at the Third Place Books door and toss knitted items at me as my car goes floating by?
And two hellos! One to Debra, a regular reader who introduced herself to me at Guild, and another to a woman whose name I don’t remember (are you seeing a pattern here?) but whom I met at the yarn store in Cashmere and who, rumor has it, has become a regular reader. Hello to you both, and sorry the blogging has been so unreliable lately. I hope sometime soon to get back to my regular posting!
OH NO! I'm mid elephant for baby Harris. Well I have 2 weeks to knit something else!
This elephant is much cuter. I'm knitting the Kitting at Knoon one.
Darn.
Posted by: Naomi on December 3, 2007 12:22 PMNaomi, I don't think any baby can have enough adorable heffalumps. Besides, and I know this is so cliche, in this case it really is the thought that counts. I vote for you to keep working on your elephant!
Posted by: Ryan on December 3, 2007 12:31 PMSQUEEEEE!!! I want one! I want an elephant! OK, resuming rational adult mode now.
Posted by: Kristen on December 3, 2007 12:54 PMCute elephant! Where did the pattern come from? Does he/she have a giraffe cousin? Knit on!
Posted by: Barbara on December 3, 2007 01:08 PMRyan, I intended to say that forgetting is a pain but I forgot. I hates it.
Posted by: Barbara on December 3, 2007 01:46 PMThe socklets were from me. I hope baby can pry them away from Mr. Elephant - he looks pretty fond of them up there. :)
Posted by: Sarah on December 3, 2007 01:53 PMJust dropped mine in the mail this morning, you should get them Tuesday. Assuming the mail truck doesn't wash away in the floods!
Posted by: Erika on December 3, 2007 01:59 PMOh, adorable baby things! Wish I had time to knit some.
Is it me that you met in Cashmere? I frequent that shop and your blog :) And I saw TMK's mom at the shop a few days ago. She didn't recognize me at first, but after recounting our previous meeting the haze lifted a bit!
Good luck with the flooding! We are having major snow melt happening and it's MESSY.
Posted by: Diana on December 3, 2007 03:24 PMYes, Diana, it is you! After I posted this rather messy entry, TMK informed me that your name was Diana. So glad you're reading the blog, and so glad you've managed to reel TMK's mother into the joyful world of knitting!
Wait. What's this? I see your name is a link! Which means you have a blog! Time to go visit!
Posted by: Ryan on December 3, 2007 03:38 PMMy yarn for the baby sweater didn't come today. Let's all cross our fingers for tomorrow, okay? I can devote a fair bit of time to it over the next, um, (yikes!) ten days but still I wish it would get here.
Elephant = cute.
Posted by: kmkat on December 3, 2007 11:29 PMHope you're keeping dry. The weather reports from Seattle sound very wet.
I keep worrying about you crossing that floating bridge...
Posted by: daisy on December 4, 2007 02:25 PMMy DEAR! Keep some water wings handy; our news show has pictures from your part of the world. There was a cop saying he'd been knocking on doors to inform folks of flood problems and they didn't know anything was wrong until they saw their cars floating away! (Must've been knitters, we get very focused this time of year!)
Fortunately, the rain turns into beautiful snow as it crosses the mountains and floats across the plains from the west....we're enjoying our flavor of it.
Stay dry!
Posted by: dale-harriet in WI on December 5, 2007 10:03 AMSo it's out of the fire and into the stockpot? I hope you're staying dry up there! And I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one for whom name-recall goes first -- thanks :)
Posted by: Jocelyn on December 5, 2007 12:26 PM