Thanks for all your kind comments on Otto the Turkey! He did a good job acting as our Thanksgiving centerpiece, and I left him to live with our host, my sister-in-law Amy, who seems quite fond of him. I’ve been working on the pattern and hope to have it posted by the weekend. Yesterday, I [...]
Archives for November 2007
Wildlife Spotting
Who’s that peeking through the trees? It’s Otto the Turkey! He’s come to wish you a happy Thanksgiving . . . . . . to politely request that you lay off the turkey this year and eat extra pumpkin pie instead . . . . . . and to show off his tail feathers! Have [...]
Guess What?
TURKEY BUTT! Okay, that was juvenile. But it was also accurate — that is a turkey butt! You see, yesterday I was seized by the urge to knit a Thanksgiving turkey. When I conducted a rapid online search, I could not find a turkey pattern that matched my own mental picture of what a knitted [...]
Finished Object: Middlebury Cardigan
The second sleeve for the herringbone sweater progresses slowly. Meanwhile, my mom sent me some buttons from Portland that she thought might work out for the Middlebury cardigan, and they are just the thing. Mom saves the day again! At last, the finished Middlebury cardigan! It is super-comfy. The Rescue Buttons are purple and are [...]
A Sleeve, a Sleeve!
See how I tried to make that exciting? I fear that it won’t work. I spent nine days knitting a sleeve, and now the sleeve is done, and it’s about as exciting as you would expect. It came out exactly the size I intended for it to come out. I am fond of it. That’s [...]