rashomama

I've been doing well recording my adventures in KNITWARS so I thought I would use some of my GP on a bit of stash enhancement (which I get to record as an adventure as well. neat!). If that's giberish to you ... don't worry. It probably is to most people.

I'm working on a Cthulhu Bib for Dr E/Dr Broman's baby boy Erik. It's going to kick so so so much ass and look adorable on him. There is a bit of a story to this ... Dr. E had Erik with her one morning and I ran into them. She bent down to him and noticed the particular bib he was wearing and said "Oh ... did Papa put on the pink bib again?" She then turned to me to explain: "This bib used to be white until Papa did laundry ..." Poor little dude. So, I felt inspired to make a kick-ass bib for him. Because it's a baby item I decided 100% acrylic would be a good idea. I really like Patons Canadiana, so I picked up a few in contrasting colors. While at Never Enough Knitting (Wheaton, IL) I got some cute buttons for my up-coming biscuit pillow, and US H hook for the Bib (because I can't find mine for the life of me), and a US4 16" circ for a hat pattern that I cannot think of for the life of me. I have it printed out and sitting in my apartment somewhere. I'll link it on Ravelry whenever.

So I really like supporting small, local businesses. I also like yarn. So. I have this cool little Google Maps think that I use to keep track of LYS (local yarn stores) that I have visited and would like to. Let's see if I can embed the map here ...

The yellow push-pins show LYSs that I have been to, and the purple ones are for stores I'd like to go to. I did manage to hit up a few places while I was in Europe, so I marked those as well. I love technology!

And last but not least, here are my new cacti babies that I got at IKEA Schaumburg yesterday.