Mossy Cottage Knits

I Continue in My Nefarious Ways

Stupid, stupid spammers! I had to shut down my comments for the last entry after an insidious and never-ending spam attack so it looks as if, from here on out, I’ll be keeping comments open for about three or four days and then shutting them for that entry.

My mother used to have a favorite curse, to be used only in times of utmost frustration, and I think it applies here, so I say to the spammers, voice trembling with the passion of the righteously just, fist raised to the skies: May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits!

I was hoping to have an update for you today on how the debut of the washcloths went, but my employee is out sick today. Given the warm weather, I would be tempted to think she’s suffering from, ahem, “sun sickness” but that would be out of character for her. So stay tuned. Perhaps Wednesday.

Long-time readers will remember the Dulaan Scam thread that’s been a regular theme of the blog. While there never has been any kind of a “scam,” of course, sometimes I feel as if I benefit from these projects more than I should, flirting, perhaps, with scamiosity. Take, for example, the Cotton Club Project. Sure there’s the fun and excitement of opening the packages and seeing the dishcloth treasure or treasures inside. But there’s always a little something more, a lagniappe, if you will, in the package. First, there’s the fact that some participants wrap their contributions in tissue paper. You can almost feel the tenderness with which the knitters wrap and package their cloths. I may be overly sentimental, but the tissue alone makes me feel something above and beyond. There are frequently beautiful little gifts for me in the packages, too: an extra dishcloth, some soap, a beautiful card with a loving note, a notepad (Maui-themed, of course, this time around), and, most recently, this, which I’m going to keep on my desk at work so I can see it all the time. The “MCK” stands, of course, for Mossy Cottage Knits!

I love everything about this little guy, the bright eyes, perky ears, sincere expression (which, now that I look at it more closely, is exactly the same expression Frankie trots out when she wants a cookie), the banner, of course, but mostly I love this, the saucy little tail:

Thank you, everyone!

This weekend I made some real headway on The Coyote-Ugly Sweater, as you can see (the sleeves are actually the same size. The left one has just decided to curl up like a salted slug until I can get the seaming done):

Embarrassingly, this is the toned down version. Originally, I had grand ideas about one red sleeve and one yellow sleeve and then a red cuff on the yellow sleeve and a blue cuff on the red sleeve and then some stripes…and then the Universe hit me upside the head with a Sanity Stick and I settled on blue with some color thrown in.

Half a sleeve, the neck ribbing, and some seaming to go.

Posted by Ryan at May 5, 2008 10:18 AM