Inserting pictures, aka: a new blogging experience

So, I’m learning. Comments are now welcomed; they were before, but I didn’t click something that needed to be clicked somewhere in the settings, so… Told ya’ I was new at this.

Meet the crup. (For those void of Rowlinguistics, that’s a Jack Russell Terrier with magical talents.) He’s a reluctant model, but he loves his warm, handsome sweater. It’s a slightly modified Lion Brand pattern, as in his old age, he’s gotten a little chubby. (Round is a shape, thank you. He’s still plenty active and fit.) This was my first “it has seams” effort. Luckily, it only had four, short little seamed parts, and it’s not like he cares how they look.

(Hooray for me! I just figured out how to put the photos where I want them!) This is another Lion Brand pattern, the felted needle case. It’s lovely, and was my first felted project, as I didn’t believe I could manage a felted bag. The Bag Lady insisted, and I found a pattern with my name in it, so there was no choice but to give knitting in the round and felted bags a chance.

Introducing the Chan bag. It’s done in Noro Kureyon, which is wonderful for its self striping, but the texture was weird and the thick to thin and back again was annoying. It was all worth it to have a tiny little bag that matched my outfit, held my keys, phone and credit card, and rested happily (and out of the way) in my lap, under my napkin through dinner and a speaker.

And last, but hardly least, is my Booga bag, done in Noro Kureyon, colorway 102. I thought it was going to be a knitting bag, but it’s not big enough for the baby blankets I’m doing now. It’s a great bag for general use though, and I will probably use it as a purse in the fall, when wool seems more appropriate again.

There’s one pink baby blanket done too, but there is no photo yet. One will have to happen soon, as little Helen came a few days early (last Wednesday, before blankie was done) so it must go off to be a useful little pink blankie soon.

Happy now Bag Lady? Mugsy (the crup) isn’t. I must go sit on the sofa, hold him, and knit. But first, treat time.

For the Bag Lady

Well m’dear, I hope you’re happy. I’m a blogger. You are quite the force in my life. The definition of a true friend: one who drives for hours to see me, someone who raves over a meager Thanksgiving dinner for three, who reconnects me to knitting and the great women from my past who tried to instill the passion AGES ago, and then nudges me into trying something new and scary – blogging.

Oh yeah. Knitting. I’m very much the novice, although I have finally moved beyond scarves, which should please my dear family. (Thanks for pretending to love ‘em all.) Pictures of some of my past projects will follow, probably in a day or two as I do have busy spells in my life where knitting (and now, blogging about knitting!) cannot be my priority. The dishes will wait, but there are meetings that won’t.

Baby blankets are my current fad. Not necessarily by choice, but because I seem to be in that phase in my life – not surprisingly, three years after the some fifteen month period that saw us attending over a dozen weddings – where there are lots of babies on the way. And that’s a good thing. I even caught myself studying a baby booty pattern in a magazine over the weekend, so who knows?! Those friends not yet in the third trimester might get something other than a blankie…