And for those of you who get it:

Love and kisses,

Maudie

(Detailed reasons for acquiring these little darlings are forthcoming.)

I’m really impressed with the postal system today. It delivered, to yours truly, the new IK!

It appears they’ve changed the design a little, so that the pictures of the finished projects come first, followed by the knitting patterns. Although… Eunny Jang’s entrelac sock pattern was published in its entirety a few pages before the rest of the patterns. I guess it qualifies as a ’special’ or whatever.

Anyway.

I liked these:

From left to right: the Green Tea Raglan, the Bonsai Tunic, and the Cable Down Raglan. I doubt I’ll be knitting any of them though, due to lack of time, and the fact that the Tea looks way too easy (read: boring) and I really hate cabling. The Bonsai — maybe. It has yarnovers, and I’m a big fan of those.

(The jury’s still out on the Ruffled Surplice.)

I think I’m secretly conquering the world with a knitted hat.

(Is it even possible to conquer something in secret? Doesn’t the word conquer at least imply some kind of public display?)

This one I’m making for my darling Karro. (No, we’re not in a secret lesbian relationship or anything. We’re just friends.)

I absolutely adore the yarn. It’s Järbo Lovikka, about 11 sts/in, and oh so lovely to knit with. The color is just fabulous, too, and I don’t usually like non-solid colors. The pattern is my own (well, I’m not really sure you can call it a pattern at all, I basically just cast on 60 sts and went from there); my better half needed a new hat so I knit him one. His is a deep red, but since he hates to be photographed there isn’t any pictures of that hat yet.

My sister made one, too, after I sent her the so-called pattern. She sent me a picture of hers in black and white but assured me it made no difference since her hat is in fact gray