a fine place to sit & knit:
Lothlorien Pond
Spring Hill Camp


photo by
Bonne Marie Burns
©2003

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Monday Morning Mirth

it's TIME for a new Aussie Boyfriend...

courtesy TVGuide.com

This former Calvin Klein model makes his TV debut as the world's favorite ApeMan, the one and only Tarzan!

Give a jungle yodel for Travis Fimmel (his 6-pack & his piercing blue eyes) who's looks have been compared to a young Paul Newman; (just squint your eyes a little and imagine shorter hair)!

Take the Tarzan Timeline Tour!

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Smooch in Bondage

a tank with miscreant edges
drives a knitter beserk
after multiple evenings
spent failing
to control them

she tightly wraps the
misbehaving garment
in the
cheapest
acrylic
yarn
she can find
and makes it sit
on the skein for...

however long it takes.

WHO'S THE BOSS NOW

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BusMate #2

"It was like deja vu all over again." Yogi Berra

All of my current knitting projects are too hot or too complicated to be proper bus knitting.

So I'm making another ChicKami (out of Phildar Akala #4 - just scrumptious pearl mercerized cotton). This one will be without shaping and I'm testing wider straps. I'll update the pattern with the strap option #2 when I finish.

Last summer, I made three in a row - I went on a circular knitting bender because by the end of the day, I just couldn't do anything else. Working outside in the hottness that is the Chicago schizophrenic weather of the minute wears me down to a little nub in no time at all.

By the time I get home from the commute, I'm soothed and relaxed and I can tackle something more brain-engaging - like my little pink cami! While watching Cupid.

That show deserves a SUPER WHAT THE---

HARSH - but I couldn't pull my eyes away - just like an accident on the freeway...

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a ChicKnits Gallery Presentation
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a most adorable girl and a kami!

Rachael Herron from My Glass House charms us with her new striped ChicKami!

colors of CottonEase

Rachael writes: "Started as part of a knit-along with Alison...

I added a few stripes, and it's all Lion's Brand Cotton-Ease, believe it or not. It's the hit of the party, like a spicy little party favor! I really like it. It's comfortable and fun. I need another couple or three."

Uno, Dos, Tres! Si, Si, Senorita! Beautiful Work!

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Tales from the #66: CUPID

Opal Mexico #16

I never thought knitting would be a man magnet, especially on the bus. (Heh, even though the succession of sweaty construction workers might've been a clue?)

Imagine my surprise when a very cute, dread-locked boy with a sk8board started talking to me during the evening commute Wednesday night.

First of all, no one ever strikes up conversations on the #66, unless they are clueless tourists. You either get ignored - or worse, you get the *LOOK* which is about ten times as powerful as *the Hand*.

But this fellow was so cute and charming, I was chattering and smiling away like the East Village Welcome Wagon. We started talking about the history of knitting after he remarked it looked like I had a lap loom (was working on the Kami in the round). Oh yes, I smiled, knitting is fabric and we launched into a riff about medieval chain mail. (Yaha, logical segue).

SO, I pulled out my sock and he just fell in love...

"He was a boy, she was a girl
Can I make it anymore obvious?
He was a punk,she did ballet
What more can I say?
He wanted her, she'd never tell
secretly she wanted him as well.
But all of her friends stuck up their nose
they had a problem with his baggy clothes.

He was a sk8er boi, she said see ya later boy
he wasn't good enough for her
She had a pretty face, but her head was up in space
she needed to come back down to earth."
Avril Lavigne

Heh, nahh, it was just her bus stop first...

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