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September 23, 2009

Readymades with Pippy and Marcel

Lately I've been on a thing.
Maybe it is just regular old nostalgia and I am just making more of it.
Maybe its because its fall and I can feel things preparing to go to sleep. I'm hoping that while things are sleeping I might stay awake for some of it, this time around, and get things done, in the darkness and the quiet. There is something soothing about the insulation of cold and snow, if one has a good cave to hole up in, and good socks, and lots of wool to knit with.
The scarf I am affectionately calling Bert is all done and all the ends woven in -

It is from this pattern that I found on Ravelry, and its super easy and mindless but not at all boring, in fact I am thinking I may have to do another one or two. It looks really good on, so I am hoping for a cool day, even. Kind of. The best part is I made it from leftover scrap yarn. There were some tense moments when I thought I had run out of gray, and when I actually did run out of white, but I think it worked out really well. You have to sometimes embrace the element of chance, with knitting, even if your knitting brain resists! Just take a deep breath and repeat, in the words of The Yarn Harlot, "there are no knitting police. There are no knitting police".

I also finally finished sewing in the ends for the Mums's Simple Yet Effective Shawl.

Which was meant to be a birthday present last year (in January)!! Its true I am a bad daughter. But it will still be effective, and simple, and cozy this winter. The Polska mittens, I think I can finish by January. Really, I mean it!!

Meanwhile, it was (and is!) Charlotte's first birthday, so I made a little sign to go under the Happy Birthday sign I made for Lucy- we just swapped out the Lucy part.

The consensus seemed to be that it worked out quite nicely.
I still thought it needed something, but I couldn't put a finger on what, (although I came close to adding glitter- rainbowish white iridescent glitter leftover from my unicorn horn some Halloween Critical Mass rides ago) but decided in the end to keep it sweet and minimal. So yeah. Charlotte got cake on her face but in general quite a bit made it into her mouth. A good time was had by all!
Oh, and I gave Charlotte this shirt from Threadless-

I think she liked it but it was hard to tell.

Marcel doesn't like to be left out.
Especially when I run in to get coffee. Although he does like how people walk up and pet him periodically, and tell him how cute he is. And the fact that he knows I will share a croissant with him for being such a good boy-

He's fine! Don't be fooled!

Oh, and I made a new painting, which some of you may have seen already, which can be viewed, for your viewing pleasure, on my flickrs, which, if you haven't gone there you really should. Seriously.

More soon!

Posted by pippypippy at 10:19 AM | Comments (1)