Every Baby Needs A Hand Knit

I was looking through photos and found this one of this sweater I knitted for the baby next store around Christmas time of 2006. The whole thing was knit out of the left over yellow yarn we used to make a scar crow hair. It's my first sweater I ever attempted, it's knit in garter stitch and a simple lace edging.

Blue Banana Bag

Finally! The Bag is complete! And to my embarrassment almost a year long project. Not entirely because of an unskilled knitter but things like ruining out of yarn, uneven strap-holes, and felting mishaps. This bag was knitted for my Great Aunt Sallie Ann, and she paid me which is why it's embarrassing that it took me 10 months to complete, photograph and ship. It turned out longer than I expected so it has been daubed the "blue banana bag" I promised my self I would never again alter patterns (this is how the bag came into existence) but that was a big flop on an idea, I still tinker with patterns. The body of the bag was knitted with Lamb's Pride, and the lighter blue straps and edging were knitted with some unknown brand, well not unknown, just failure to remember. But really I rather pleased with it.

The postcard above is one of my favorites. I found these comical characters in an paper advertisement in the magazine Communication Arts. To secure the ribbon I put a small brad where they intersect.

This was also sent to Finland. The e-mail I got back was probably one of my favorites too. It read some ware along the lines of her little sister liked it so much to she was begging to put it up on her wall, but she refused and I'm assuming it resides still tapped to her wall. This is were I wish I could find out more about there culture and family life, 4 inches by 5 isn't enough room to write about everything.

Postcrossing

One of my favorite websites is Postcrossing. You send postcards all over the world and in return, you receive postcards from every corned of the globe. These are some of the postcards I have sent. I hand make all of them, so through my art work it's like sending a little piece of me, so theoretically I've been most every where, if you wrap your mind around it the right way.

This is the first post card I send off destined to Finland. It's not the actual making of the postcards but the reactions you get when the recipient e-mails you back and tells you they love the time and effort put into the postcard, and it's now their favorite one.

Espen's Stripes

This is the one day wonder hat, probably the fastest I have ever knitted. I am such a painfully slow knitter, which is why I am making a fuse over this baby garment, knitted and seemed in one day for baby Espen. I'm disappointed that I couldn't get a picture of him waring it he looked like quite the fashion statement. This pint sized hat was knitted with size four needles and Micro Spun, by Lion Brand Yarns. The yarn I acquired about a year ago to knit booties from. I only got one done, and it's a lumpy mess of tangled yearn at that.

I've decided rather than stressing over conjuring something amusing or funny to write, I'm converting my blog into more of away to share my art and knitting.

The Magic of Thanksgiving

The holidays are here and we're getting ready for Christmas, after Thanksgiving sales are the latest buzz, and secret packages and stuffed under beds and tucked away in closest.

But what happened to the magic of Thanksgiving?

The magic of Thanksgiving is the specialist of them all. True, Thanksgiving got stuck with the mascot of an over wight turkey, not nearly as magical as flying reindeer and sleds filled with gifts, and a jolly old man who will give you your hearts desires.

But the magic of Thanksgiving does some thing else...

Thanksgiving turns us into over night chiefs, who could whip up the most splendid of dishes, yams, apple pies, rolls, and a turkey that is juicy and tender.
Thanksgiving brings up together and makes us forget the worries of yesterday, and joke the bad times off.
Thanksgiving makes use to take time to be thankful for the people sitting our left and right.

So I challenge you to be thankful, tell your loved ones you are thankful they're here, tell the mailman you appreciate him never losing a letter, or even a bill. Tell the man who opened the door, when your hands were full thank you. Tell your most hated you are thankful for them.

Today be marry, eat turkey, laugh, and don't forget the Magic of Thanksgiving.

OK GO, on Treadmills

4 guys, 8 treadmills = probably the most creative music video you will ever see.
The band OK GO took 8 days to do this nifty routine with out falling off. The video was shot in one go, no out takes or cuts one go, impressive... to view this vlip click the link below.

http://videobomb.com/posts/show/3484

hypnosis

On Saturday, at our local fair I got to be hypnotized. That was one of the wriest things I've done. There were 13 other people being put under hypnosis with me, we all sat on a stage and got to be cheap entertainment for everybody else. Being under hypnosis was like being in a concise sleep, I was aware of every thing around me, and what I was doing. The hypnotist started out by having use all fall asleep, you were sitting there and just slowly you slipped into a sleep like state, I fell over but don't remember bonking my head or anything. Then he told us it was cold and you were going to freeze to death, then he told you, you were in a 400 degree oven, and you really felt cold or burning...Weird...! I knew I could open my eyes if I wanted to but then you just got this overwhelming thought of: wow that's a stupid idea. So yep I have official been hypnotised.