xmas knits and baked goods

TJR's noro stripey scarf:


SAMcS's fingerless gradient gloves:


SAMcS's EZ ribwarmer:


PF's brioche-in-the-round hat:


Finnish pulla:


Pea quiche:

An old friend, Steam Shovel:

CGMcS's hat n mittens:




ALMcS's scottish golfer hat:


And tiny silly thumbless mitts:




IJMcS's nosewarmer (KJB's nosewarmer unseen here):



SAM's slightly wall-eyed slippers.

Plus 4 unphotographed beer cozies for my brother, bro-in-law, nephew, and dad.

A few more items in the works, stay tuned...

too long

For some reason I have stopped taking photos and posting to this blog. So I will now attempt to rectify that. I like photos. I should take them. So here are a few from the past few weeks in reverse chronological order.

I made this hat for one of my colleagues at work. It is a great, rich brown color and I can't remember any more details than that. It is all ribs (k3, p2) has a cool decreasing sequence not particularly evident here but clear in the pictures with the pattern. Here's the pattern.





This past weekend, MLKJDay, and Inauguration Day were spent with my brother, his wife, and their dog. Once again, few photos were taken, but here's my brother with his wovel.



LTM in his Xmas apron. The apron was constructed according to this terrific pattern. The ties are adjustable so it should fit all manner of folks. I have no idea where the fabric is from--I just found it in one of my overflowing tubs. The green is a heavyweight and the blue/white used to be a tablecloth. Now it comprises the tie and the somewhat haphazard decorative patches.



Here, cutting up the best duck I've ever eaten.


Two weekends ago, SAH (I think those are her initials? hmm, can't remember), ARP and I attended the Benson Bunnies/Omaha North Vikings high school basketball game. The Bunnies and the Vikings are big rivals, I'm told. The Bunnies did well in the first quarter, and although their play deteriorated a lot in the following 3, they still managed to pull out a win. No doubt, I am obsessed with the fact that they are called the Bunnies. Sadly, I didn't get a picture of the t-shirts that said, in scary font, BEWARE THE HARE.

The Runnin' Rabbits:


Bunny Pride:


SAH and ARP:


The tough-guy strangely-dressed-like-Rocky Bunny mascot:


Home of the Bunnies:


My brother's Xmas present. The pattern, modified in length and width for a tall, broad-shouldered guy, is Elizabeth Zimmermann's Ribwarmer. The yarn is Paton's Classic Wool Aran. This is the first time I've knitted an attached i-cord border and I think it worked out pretty well. I still need some practice in joining the end to the beginning. I attached an old tag with his name on it that I found in one of my mother's sewing boxes and would have posted a picture of it here, except, well, it has his name on it. It was also my first time blocking something and I wonder how people do it without getting those little waves where the pins are. They are especially noticeable along the bottom.



The Mystic Valley Band, my new officemates:



In other news, I have a terrific new roommate. Perhaps she too will appear here soon.

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skijor

Skijor is a weird word that is Alaskans pronounce not, as I imagined, "ski-yer", but phonetically, "ski-jur." So that's weird. And the gear's weird too. There are straps that go this way and that way around me, and that way and this way around Lulu. And then, in another world where Lulu doesn't don't bop back and forth like a pinball, and I have skis, she could pull me on my skis. But that's contrary to fact, and instead we have a grand old time: she bopping about, and I, b/c of the construction of the harness, not getting my arm yanked off. Many thanks to the Arctic Outpost for its contribution to my wellbeing.

Here's a picture of skijoring I found on the tubes:



Maybe someday when Lulu and I get more coordinated, we'll try this out.

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