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OK - I probably have been living under a rock and likely everyone else in the knitting community has seen and/or forwarded this video to their friends. But just in case you just emerged from under you’re favorite rock - this gives new meaning to “playing with your food” and “what’s the wierdest thing YOU have ever knit?” I stumbled across it while blog-surfing at CarissaKnits.blogspot.com - and FYI - it is a quite nice demo of how to knit!  (Her site is full of great knitting patterns too - many of which are free.)

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It could be the heat - and cotton yarn seems to be a good choice during the summer, but I’m calling it the dishcloth flu. I thought I was over it…apparently I have relapsed. I was all set to start a “real” project, get a design going that I have been cooking up for quite some time, or pick up something from the WIP pile, when, the next thing I knew, I was just “finishing up this ball of yarn”, and then “oh yeah! I think I’ll make one of those!

So, I’ve been feather and fanning, and I’m now doing an entrelac cloth - that might end up either a hot pad (rectangle, then fold it in half and stitch up three sides and add a loop - or maybe just a really “generous” cloth. I haven’t decided yet.  That’s the “oh yeah!” cloth… The Feather & Fan Dishcloth pattern is at the Dishcloth Boutique. For the entrelac cloth, I’m using the instructions from Scarf Style for Lady Eleanor - just a few less base triangles of course. Entrelac is fun because it gives me the opportunity to practice knitting and purling backwards. (If you don’t - you end up turning your work every 8 stitches, so depending on how ambitious I’m feeling, I either turn my work, or just do the backwards version of whatever stitch I’m on - keeps it interesting.)  I may make another hummingbird dishcloth if I can get my hands on a different color yarn.  I’m close to the end of my stash now, and the only solid I have left is more pink - why I ended up with so much pink is rather a puzzlement to me, but there you have it.   So, on we go with the dishcloth flu until it’s either a) run it’s course and I’m really and truly “over it” or b) I run out of yarn - and unless the yarn fairies swing by, my money’s on “b”….

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Wow!  Lots of these.

Well, I could COME UP WITH lots of them.  I shall limit myself to only 10 though - but I know as soon as I start reading everyone else’s I’m going to say “oh yeah! I should have used that one!”

1. Circular knitting needles with great cable joins and cables that don’t kink.  Addi Lace and Profi come to mind.
2. The crock pot - or the electric rice steamer.  Kind of the same category, so I’m lumping those into one.
3. Ravelry.com.
4. Split/ergonomic computer keyboards.  (I type a lot.)
5. Online shopping.
6. Digital cameras.
7. MP3 players.  I use mine mostly for audiobooks, magazines and podcasts.  In fact, I don’t think I have any music at all on mine.
8. Bloglines and other RSS feed aggregator type programs.  (I think that’s what they are called…)
9. E-mail.  Although I guess that one could be argueable..as could #8.
10. Mozilla’s Firefox browser.

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OK.  I think I have finally gotten over the latest dishcloth obsession.  There are one or two patterns left that I’m thinking of doing, but I’m itching to get on with something else now.  I started swatching for a design Idea I’ve been mulling over for quite some time.  So, that’s kind of fun.  It’s still in the “mulling over” stage though, except that I finally have a gauge in mind, and now I can start trying to turn it into the actual THING.  Sure hope it comes out close to what’s in my brain.  Often those two things - idea/reality - are much further apart than it appeared in concept.

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I believe that’s the name I have seen given this cloth. It is only coincidental that I used kind of desert-y colors, because I was completely clueless about it’s name. I was just using this yarn for the cloths. So. Cool. Heh?  (The loop came out kind of funky looking.  Oh well!)  I have seen it in other colors on Ravelry that really look nice too.  And.  While I was at it.  I did the Hummingbird cloth too.  I like to knit these while I’m watching a movie I enjoy.  Then, whenever I pick up the cloth again, it seems to jog my memory of the movie.  This hummingbird cloth was knit during an old John Wayne movie that I’ve seen a few dozen times called Donovan’s Reef.  Now every time I see this cloth I start humming that song that’s threaded throughout the movie.

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