FO to share!

An exerpt from my latest blog post (read the whole thing here). I dove into the stash & made a cute FO, took about 4 hours total, all worked on yesterday between bouts of dizziness, Booger's naps, and Llama's early bedtime (which helped Booger sleep longer). It seems as though blogger's wearing its rear end as a hat again (quite unattractive, blogger!) and won't let pictures show up, but they show up fine on my blog. Until blogger is fixed, you'll have to pop over there to see them if you're really interested, I guess. All better!.

In more dramatic news, Thursday was wrought with a near-miss of disaster. I had to be at work at 9:00 (though the schedule at work said 9:30); 8:50 rolls around & Mom's not here yet. I call, to see what time she left (she lives about 30 minutes away, without construction delays), and OH she's still in bed. Shit. Call work, tell them I'll be late, bring Booger upstairs to the neighbors who have a daughter 2 months younger than him, they agree (happily, the nutsos) to watch him until Mom arrives. As a thank you, I broke out the Lamb's Pride Superwash & my library copy of Nicky Epstein's Knitting over the Edge and started on the "butterfly bowtie" motif. Thought it would be a nice headband, decided to keep going & made it a hat*.

Here is "Flutterby," modeled on a willing canteloupe.

and a close-up of the butterfly motif, which is also a much better representation of the lavender of the yarn but still not pale enough (it's really a gorgeous pastel)

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* For those in the know: if I use a stitch motif from a book, am I allowed to sell a pattern I make using that motif? I mean, of course I’d give credit, probably in some form like “I first saw this butterfly motif in Nicky Epstein’s Knitting over the Edge and knew it would make the perfect brim for a little girl’s hat.” But is that good enough? Am I allowed to give the pattern away? Am I allowed to do anything with it at all other than use it for my own nefarious purposes?