where's wooly? guess & win!

the wild wooly in the pic above was recently released into the wild. that's it in the middle right-hand side of the photo, sitting innocently enough on the light blue bench. guess the exact location depicted in this photo and win a free skein of dreamy, new artyarn cashmere 5, which my friend lucinda calls "5 strands of luxury that knits at 4.5 stitches an inch," and "the softest thing I have ever knit with!"

i hope it never melts

i just love how knitting has become so mainstream that even non-knitting pubs are referencing it. my christmas wish is that this trend lasts forever! is that possible?

p.s. first grey's anatomy and now gilmore girls: my friend joselyn and one of my readers sarah pointed out that last night's episode (which yours truly missed) featured the stars hollows townspeople engaging in a knit-a-thon. if anyone happened to catch it, it would be great to hear a recap. long live yarny the snowman!

p.p.s. leave it to a recently divorced southern obsessive compulsive knitter with four cats to scoop the hell out of me. i am so out of the loop. literally and figuratively. knit people, knit.

not now, honey

can't you see i'm watching the game?!

sweetest hangover

ok, i finally see what all the fuss is about. (sold out again? what do you mean it's sold out again?) this stuff is a.maz.ing. soft. full bodied. gorgeous clear colors. and i haven't even taken a sip yet! i could easily become a lush. what shall i make with it? (and please don't say socks. this stuff is way too pretty to be covered up with shoes and pantlegs!)

knitting in hell

there's knit club. and then there's knit club at lux. all other venues pale in comparison.


note to comedic non-knitting lux patrons: yes, this is a headlamp. no, we are not miners.


after a couple of glasses of wine, everything becomes all too clear. except perhaps, exactly what is going on in this picture.

18 reasons why i love my chix

i didn't get to go to my chix with stix meeting last night, but thanks to jenna, i feel like i was there. every week, jenna (the lead chick) writes these funny and pithy "minutes" and posts them
here. this latest one just came in over the chix newswire. (kinda makes you wish you were there, too, doesn't it?)

1. you walk into Spot, look right at Adriana, and announce to kelly that "no one is here yet."
2. Kelly's mom wants to come knit with us at Lux.
3. Jenn's parents think we are supreme dorks for knitting in bars. (Little do they know...)
4. James is knitting a sweater.
5. ...from a pattern.
6. Kim loses all ability to comprehend numbers and proceeds to cast on for 2+ hours.
7. you leave with less sweater on the needles than you arrived with due to the fact that you no longer know how to knit.
8. erin promises not to curse about minimum wage if Kelly's mom comes to knit.
9. you have developed an unhealthy attraction to your modular scarf.
10. you call your mom and ask if she can estimate the circumference of your grandma's hand.
11. James tries to gloss over the fact that his buddies moved to Pittsburgh to start a real, live, commune.
12. a passerby asks if you are "all friends" and Erin screams out, "I don't even LIKE these guys!!"
13. after eleventy-billion pairs of fingerless gloves, you're waxing poetic about photo shoots and "glove love."
14. after eleventy-billion and one pairs of fingerless gloves you're now muttering under your breath, "I am a cottage industry, I am a cottage industry..."
15. you believe that Jenna's neighbors are probably vampires.
16. you're putting your heads together to invent colonoscopy-prep drinking games with a Food Network theme.
17. you're mentally preparing the playlist for your Colonoscopy Mix Tape.
18. it seems reasonable to make Top 18 lists rather than Top 10 or Top 20 or something.

does this mean i get cake?

i just realized this month is my two-year "bloggiversary," or however you spell it. thanks to my fellow bloggers and readers. you guys never cease to inspire me to find new ways to avoid all the other stuff i should be doing.

you say eggplant, i say aubergine

thanks to all the artsy fartsy types who responded to my guess-the-matisse contest. there were so many good guesses. who knew the man was so prolific?

the winner of a lovely skein of artyarn is amp, aka icy*Purl. she was the first to correctly guess that my little yarn collage is homage to "interior in aubergines." from a quick perusal of her blog, i see amp is a verrrrry new newlywed. congraulations on your wedding and on your arty eye!