Thursday, November 17, 2005

Things I would like...

1. for someone to knit me a sweater like this one Rachael did for Lala, except with different motifs [as I'm not an exceptionally cool banjo player]. Maybe a nice moose. A maple leaf. A rabbit with a toque. Something Canadian.

2. soup. Would someone make me some soup?

I think these two are related. It's COLD today. You'd think it was November or something.

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Newsy updates:

Sally Melville is an amazing, creative, funny woman. She also has a killer bod. She wore a little leotard top last night so that she could whip off what she was wearing [the cover sweater from her third book] and try on each piece as she talked about it. There were catcalls. I will neither deny nor confirm any involvement. Blame Emma.

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I bought another spindle last night. Stop it. You'll find out why soon enough.

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The Frappr map is freaking cool. It also doesn't work very well with OS 9, which is what I use at the office. But when I got home last night, all sorts of sweet faces were waving at me from all over the world. I love this! If you're not on yet, add yourself, please? I've been going around and doing the same with the blogs I read.

Here: I made a little less nauseating button. Feel free to steal [though you'll want to change the code for your own map]!


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It seems some cool bloggers are discovering the pleasures of a pretty, mindless knit [not to be confused with a pretty mindless knit]. AKA a knitting project that takes little brainpower, is soothing to work on, shows off interesting yarn well, and is actually wearable when you're done. This makes me very happy.

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Okay. Clearly no one is getting me any soup, so I'm going to get some myself. Later.

Comments:
And what fibre would this sweater be knit in?
 
a nice cotton/acrylic, i think. because pure acrylic is kind of cruel and pure cotton would weigh a ton. something soft and cozy.

sigh.
 
Thanks for the Frappr button. Their button is huge and ugly.
 
I make a wicked-good split pea soup with lots of chunky good things in it. Come on down to Virginia and I'll make you some.
 
i will make you soup in january! carrot? squash? minestrone? vichysoisse? tom ka gai? name your poison.

also, i know one of my students was doing a cardigan sweater with a big maple leaf (split, it was a zipped cardigan), but slightly modernized leaf shape vs. the flag. also, she was using two colors of manos. a deep maroon for the leaf and something lighter but earthy for the background. so it definitely had that "I'm Canadian!" thing going on, without, well, looking like your Olympic team.

I'd say their cotton stria, but i think you may be right about the blend issue.
 
I would make you a sweater, or soup... :)

Will put the Frappr button on my blog tonight. :)
 
Hey now! I might resemble that remark!

I made a huge pot of potato curry leek soup. I made so much I got sick of eating it every single day. It was good soup but now it is just mould in the fridge.
 
But you would look so good playing a banjo! I'm not kidding either, banjos are HOT.

:)
 
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