I’m Knitting As Fast As I Can

My Fun Fur odyssey is complete. Yesterday I mailed off a package containing 14 hats knit from assorted novelty yarns:

If I never see another skein of Fun Fur again it will be too soon (although I confess I only knit 13 of the hats; my co-worker knit the 14th). I admire Mini for taking on this project for Children’s Hospital and for having the courage to temporarily share a home with all those hats. She’s received 845 hats already, which works out to more than 42,000 grams of Fun Fur. It’s making me a bit uncomfortable just to think of all those unnatural fibers in one home.

As the antidote for my recent Fun Fur high, I’ve been working on a new shawl design that I’ll be offering for sale shortly. The first prototype is complete and I’m knitting a second to see if I can squeeze the shawl out of one skein of Karabella Lace Mohair.

Stay tuned; it’s going to be close.

Welcome to the new blog!

I assume you got here from my old blog, which must mean you want to know who won the soap in my contest. Well, before I announce the winner I first want to thank everyone who left a comment with suggestions on how to set up the new blog. There were 190 comments, in fact! Yikes!!!

The most common suggestion was to move the text away from the left margin and eliminate the large amount of white space on the right of the screen. When I set up the blog back in the dark ages, most people did not have large computer monitors and that format was necessary to fit all the content on the page. Obviously, the posts on this new site are centered on the page and all the text should be viewable on all screen resolutions.

Although some people thought the font on the old blog was too large, far more liked it. I like the large font, too, so I have kept the larger font on this site.

Other common suggestions were to add a search function and a gallery of photos. Both were great ideas. I installed the search function and created the photo gallery–I just haven’t added any photos yet. Hey, it’s a work in progress.

I got a fantastic suggestion from Polly who thought a drop-down menu for the archives would be nice. Brilliant! I added the widget immediately and you can see it on the sidebar. Unfortunately, not all my old posts survived WordPress’ automatic import feature so I’ll be working on adding them manually.

OK, enough chatter; let’s get to the real reason you’re here. The winner of the Blessed Juno, Hand Knit soap and the warshcloth was Stephanie whose name was chosen at random. Congrats, Stephanie, I think you’ll really love the soap.

I still have a few things to tidy up on this site, but I’ll be posting here from now on. I’m also still trying to figure out how to move all my Bloglines subscriptions to this new URL. A techie, I am not. For now, though, you can click here to subscribe individually with Bloglines. And as an incentive, next week I plan to post a free seriatim pattern as a welcome-to-my-new-home prezzie to all of you. I may even share my fool-proof method of Kitchenering sock toes via photos if I can get my Kitchener-challenged friend to help me with the photos on Saturday.

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And just because I can’t possibly have a post with no photos, here are some Fun Fur hats I made this past week for Kate.