There’s a lot to like, so I’ll get right to it.
*The CRAFT magazine blog! Joining the amazing Natalie and CRAFT blogging team is the outrageously cool Jenny (and I’m sure equally neat Becky Stern, who I haven’t had the good fortune to meet personally but whose posts I’m enjoying)! I can hardly keep up with the awesomeness over there. And I’m ridiculously honored that the tie top tank tutorial was their pattern pdfcast on Friday. Thanks guys!
*Wilhelmina, the sleepy snail
from the Wee Wonderfuls hand sewing for fun pattern card. I accidentally sewed on her little mask upside down, but I still like her.
*Linda’s beautiful crocheted earrings.
*Flight of the Conchords- Thanks to HBO on demand I was able to have a little marathon last night. The show is quirky and hilarious, but it is really the silly songs that kept me coming back for more. My favorites being the Rhymenocerous vs Hiphopopotamus, Inner City Pressure, Robot, foux de fa fa and…oh, I’ll stop listing them now. Anyway, it is very funny if you like that sort of thing (think The Vacant Lot, the State, and maybe The Kids in the Hall, but not sketch comedy), which of course I do. If you don’t have HBO, you can watch videos of all the songs on the site and surely it will come out on DVD once the season is over.
*Time on an airplane for more tiny onesie projects for friends:
A guitar from The Stitch-it Kit, ’cause babies rock.
*Spending the weekend in Madison, WI! We had some good advice about what to do in our brief hours there (for a wedding, which was also lovely), and we packed it all in:
The Dane County Farmer’s Market (yay! local apples!)
A walk by the lake
A brat(wurst) at the Union
A little walk in the woods- there had been a lot of rain before we arrived, so there was magic everywhere
After stitching up that little snail, I’m more confident of my hand sewing abilities, and have a hankering to try another handmade softie. There are still some muslin bits in the studio that remain unpacked, so if I have time I may start on a Purl Rabbit soon.