These are the thoughts that flitted through my mind today.

• 10:37 Really, MSNBC? "Sects in the city"? For shame. #
• 18:01 aie how did my afternoon disappear stupid Hello Kitty Online website #

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http://www.fanplusfriend.com/c2/SP00031_02.jpg <- What I want to know, dear friends... do you do the tucks BEFORE sewing the side seams, or after, once it's a tube?

The ruffler rocks my world -- and I also bought the 3-pintuck foot for my machine, so that's my next technique to tackle.

I need frills, people. I need them. BLACK FRILLS.

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• 10:38 If you need to recycle yogurt or cottage cheese containers, don't use water, jusk ask Bettie the kitty. She'll clean them thoroughly. #
• 10:41 Made a kahlua cocktail for Thierry yesterday evening thanks to my new cocktail app on the iPod touch. Oh the joys of upgrading ! #
• 10:41 I also downloaded two Hello Kitty apps. on the iPod. The kitty madness knows no bounds... #
• 10:43 Picked up knitting again after a long break from the needles. After a difficult start, I'm finding my marks again. Craft aren't for me #
• 10:46 Still obsessed by the HK candy-house. Figured I can buy it now and enjoy it for a while, then give it to Margaux when she's a bit older. #

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Okay, so they're somewhere in-between "bunnies" and "cartoon dogs with floppy ears", but... they're done!



I knitted the straps to be medium size, but maybe I should have gone for large? I don't know. I tacked down the button hole on one foot, which seems to have helped.

Since these slippers are just for me, I experimented by doing one with the thrums all lined up, and the other with the thrums alternating a bit. I can't say which looks better.



I used up all 2+oz of the unspun wool making these (including the tails). Not sure how this would change if I were to, say, use silk or soysilk top in an attempt to make vegan-friendly versions... then again, I'm not sure if there are any good vegan-friendly super-bulky yarns. I guess I could hold two or three strands of worsted as one, but that's such a pain when I'll have to pick up stitches, decrease stitches, etc.

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These are the thoughts that flitted through my mind today.

• 16:46 I am looking at silk top and soy silk roving on E-bay. I might maybe be addicted to thrumming. Please, friends! Desire mittens and slippers! #

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• 10:35 Mailman dragged me out of bed for a good cause. Thanks a million Anita for the lovely X-mas package ! #
• 10:40 Great b-day party for a friend yesterday evening. I danced a lot and apparently, for the lesbian population, I'm still a hottie. #
• 16:45 Getting a XS-skirt from Uniqlo where they inform you Japanese sizes are smaller than European ones & finding it's too big is a great feeling #
• 17:45 Shopped,made soup, now about to chill in front of a movie while knitting a scarf for thierry #

Twittering Blythou out

Holiday greetings!

We spent Christmas Day in the traditional Jewish manner - seeing a movie, then going out for Chinese. It was actually pretty hard to find a Chinese restaurant that was open; fortunately one of the movie theatre ticketers knew a restaurant that was open in the next town over... in Massachusetts.

We saw "Sherlock Holmes", and we really really enjoyed it! I don't know how I feel about the fact that we have learned to identify Hans Zimmer's music but man, it sure lent a Pirates of the Caribbean-y adventure-y feel to the movie! I loved the crap out of Robert Downey Jr.'s Holmes and Jude Law's Watson. Now I want to re-read whatever Holmes-iana we might have at home. I got two books by the guy who wrote "The Seven Per Cent Solution", but now I'm wondering if I shouldn't request and get "The Seven Per Cent Solution" from Paperback Swap as well.

We opened our Christmas gifts and stocking stuffers (popcorn topping! Rockhopper Penguin cough drops! TEA!!! SOCKS! THANK YOU EVERYONE!) and I finished up my Kitten Mittens (cast on in frickin' AUGUST, I don't think MIL realizes how long it takes me to finish non-hat projects).

Kitten Mittens!





And once I finished those, I was able to cast on for...
Bunny Hop Slippers pattern, from Nikol Lohr and Craftzine!



These are thrummed slippers. And they knit up ridiculously quickly. I cast on while we watched a whole bunch of Sarah Jane Adventures episodes and the new Doctor Who special, and finished the ears and strap around 2 AM. I am so glad I went with the Berkshire Bulky yarn, as the wool-alpaca blend makes them so soft.

( More Bunny Hop pics! )

And then I knit on straps and ears and did some temporary eyes, and need to do a nose. And a button!

Guys, guys, I love this pattern! Please raise your hand if you can wear wool fibers and would like a pair for winter (either this one or next winter, it all depends on when I can go to WEBS again), because omg! OMG!

Both the yarn and the fluffy roving were purchased 12/24, when we met up with the in-laws at WEBS and MIL bought me... a whole bunch of yarn! Most of it from the super-clearance warehouse at the back of the store.

This yarn makes me happy just looking at it.



We lunched at Zen in Northampton, then came home to find a ginormous gift tower from my parents on the doorstep. And then I found a Knitpicks gift certificate in my e-mail inbox. And I baked chocolate chip cookies and made mushroom risotto, which we ate as we watched "A Muppet Christmas: Letters to Santa".

And a Merry Happy Jolly was had by all.

Tags: happiness, knitting

I know some of you would appreciate my loot! Coughcoughtropigaliacoughcough.

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• 19:34 Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas ! #
• 12:57 Santa brought me a Hello Kitty mouse with matching pad,Japanese DVDs, a book, short tartan overalls, a necklace, a wii game & opera tickets #
• 12:58 Guess what : we didn't drink or eat too much and we had a lovely time with Marion & her mum & Pauline.... #
• 18:03 Twittering from my updated iPod touch which looks so cool with its pixar shark sticker #

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These are the thoughts that flitted through my mind today.

• 17:55 Life would be so much simpler if I could program gift-recipients to have the same fashion taste as me. #
• 21:41 Overmixing has led to tragically flat chocolate chip cookies. Can the Muppets save Christmas yet again? #
• 21:50 If I finish one project tonight, can I cast on for a new one? I got both yarn AND fiber for the thrummed bunny slippers... #

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