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Remember the Big Bad Baby Blanket from earlier this summer? Here’s the angelic little recipient, Ella, all cozied up in said blanket (click on the image for the full-body shot). More Ella pictures are right here, and go here for details on the exploits of this 7-week old traveller and her intrepid parents!

There has been sparse knitting content around here lately, hasn’t there? I do have a couple of fibre-friendly stories to tell, but I’ve been cagey about current projects because they have been mostly gift-knitting. From now until December 26th, you can probably expect to see intermitten knit-talk. No big surprise.

Lately, I’ve completed a modified version of Stepannie’s Silk Garden beanie (modified to toque proportions: i.e.: rib for about 2.5″ and stocking stitch for about 6″) in Lamb’s Pride Superwash and a standard pair of socks in Regia’s delicious new silk/merino blend. Both for etc.’s most faithful reader, my dad. No pictures of either yet, perhaps I can wheedle a modeled shot out of him.

And, in Buffy content (I’m seriously resisting the urge to start a “buffy” category, even though the author of this book is quoting this post on the back cover of her volume), this is a good article that talks buffy, politics, morality, cosmic balance, and who you should vote for for president next week, all in one place.

I feel like I’m playing catch up on long overdue pictures. Here’s the completed Kittyville, cast off the needles about a month ago. I used Phildar Legende (hot! pink!), which is a soft alpaca/wool/acrylic mix with a tweedy sprinkling of blue, green, and brown. It knit up to a tighter gauge than the pattern called for, and I made no adjustments whatsoever for this, but thanks to some stroke of bizarre luck, the finished hat ended up being just my size. And I’ve never been a fan of the pompon, but I’m quite pleased with these mini ones.

These are good socks. They’re warm, comfortable, the pattern is far simpler than I thought it would be (although I ran a quick three-needle bind-off rather than the recommended grafting), and sock-knitting is intensely gratifying. Yarn: 2 skeins Fortissima Colori in #9070 Sombrero.

I’ve spent inordinate amounts of time categorizing old posts over the past couple of days. You see, I ran the Blogger import script on all posts from the former etches-johnson.com (books, film, links, knitpics), so it’s all here now, and it’s certainly nice to have it all in one place. But it means categorizing will take a lot longer than I anticipated, I’m working my way back from October 2004 (I’m up to April 2004) and until it’s all done, there will be a whole bunch of posts under “General“. In case you’re wondering.

i wore the organic cotton sweater for the first time to-day and thought it would be remiss if i didn’t use the opportunity to photograph it on for you. so here you go.

Top Secret perches on the couch. a modelled shot to-morrow, perhaps.

…a scarf it is then! this took about 45 minutes to finish & it’s all frothy and sumptuous around the neck. yum.

And so to-day, being Friday, instead of doing all sorts of necessary work this morning, I finished the Paris Loop, the pattern for which I love and unreservedly recommend to any beginning knitter, and took an inventory of my needles.

It’s called Productive Procrastination and, Hello, I am your Resident Expert.

who doesn’t love a quick knit? this is a great pattern.

all seamed up. what? you were expecting a modeled shot?