Other people are funny.

Tonight? I teach knitting and photograph a large bag of new yarn. For now, check out the link here. Look at the other comics as well!

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There's also this T-shirt, which I purchased:

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And lots of other T-shirts! And comics to make your jobjob day just fly by!

Mother of Deadlines: in the hands of the Postal Service

Look! Knitting! I'm making a sweater for my friend Sara's niece. So actually there are two nieces, they're 5, and they're twins. This is one sweater; my friend Hannah is knitting the other. The design is my own, and will be available at some point if I like it enough. Detail shots to come when I have daylight... these colors (Rowan Pure Wool DK in Hyacinth and Pale Petal) photograph terribly indoors.

Two FINISHED OBJECTS from the weekend are in a box that will, tomorrow morning, be headed to Michigan. A large finished object "reveal" will take place on Sunday.

@ work

While The Chris works 15-hour days to finish The Big House in Weston (Chris does high-end interior painting and is currently supervising the painting aspect of a new McMansion west of Boston) and I am awash in Mother's Day surprise knitting, commission knitting, and upcoming patterns (including one for the June issue of MagKnits, so stay tuned!) and my Job-job becomes a larger pile of paper every day, well, I find amusement in the small things.

Example: a Statement of Account Billing sent to a laboratory connected to my department reading:

Charges for Radioactive Waste

1 Large bag(s) x $120.00 = $120.00

Yep, 1 Large bag(s).

The First WEAVERKNITS official design!!!

It's official! Coherent directions have been written, charts have been typed up, the product has been test-knit by the lovely and talented Hannah at Windsor Button, there are photo, and kinkos has sealed the deal!

My first self-published pattern will be available printed on high-quality glossy stock paper and encased in a plastic sheet protector.

The Nouveau Sack Hat is a perfect pattern for learning fair isle: no shaping, flexible gauge (it's stretchy!), only two colors, size 7 needles for instant gratification... there's not even grafting involved! And the yarns suggested (Berocco Ultra Alpaca, Classic Elite Inca Alpaca, and Blue Sky Alpaca sport weight) and tried have about a thousand available colors and are reasonably priced. You cannot lose!

The pattern will be available for $6 through Windsor Button and Newbury Yarns in Boston, and you can also order it from me directly by sending me an email at weaverbergh13@verizon.net. I'll send you a PayPal invoice, and once it's paid I'll put the pattern in the mail. The $6 includes shipping!

Why not a downloadable PDF, you ask. Well, I like nice things, and I've made sure that this pattern is NICE. What you will get is something durable and lovely, just like the things you knit! And, as all of us know, there's nothing like going in to a yarn store and browsing the patterns and seeing actual project. There will be samples at both Windsor Button and Newbury Yarns for feeling and examining and trying-on.

Plenty more patterns are on their way... soon!

Meanwhile, another finished object from this weekend, photographed at kinkos. It's the Cranium from Crochet Me, made from 2 skeins of Louisa Harding Fauve in some really bright pink color.

Hard work. Lots of it.

So it may look like I have nothing finished lately, but that is just not the case. There's been a lot of work at my now-permanent position. I've had two days of orientation; on the first day, when asked in which department I would be working, I said "Neurosurgery." That got some oohhs and huuhs from the other new employees, so I explained that I am an administrator, but that "I tell my family and friends that they're letting me start working on the small tumors." NO ONE THOUGHT THAT WAS FUNNY. In fact, the overly peppy, enthusiastic orientation leader BLANCHED and said, "you really shouldn't say that." I didn't follow, so I said, "come on, just my family and friends. And it's just the small tumors." Or something like that. I was smiling as a said it, like, "funny, right, funny because it's so preposterous?" Well, not funny.

There's been working out. (Wow, now that I look at that picture up close, eek, I am making the oddest face and having the strangest hair day. It's pretty ugly. But that's how I look after the gym, and hey, the shirt is the topic and it's adorable). Yes, that is a tank from Knit, a yarn store in South Carolina. My parents got it for me as a souvenir on their recent trip. Of course I asked them where the yarn was... WHERE IS THE YARN THAT GOES WITH THIS SHIRT? There was no yarn. But the shirt is a real kick to wear at the White Trash Gym I visit... don't want anyone getting too complacent there! Yeah, that small person on the bench press is indeed wearing a knitting top.

And there's been a lot of knitting. Soon all will be revealed, seriously. I have a mess of patterns and commissions and surprises and Mother's Day in the works. All in good time.

The Mother of All Deadlines

Mother's Day approaches, holiest of all the high Hallmark holy days, at least in the Weaver family. Rest assured that the impending nature of this date has not slipped my mind, dear Weaver and Bergh mothers and grandmas, and that other knitting has been put on hold in order to produce presents in a timely manner. Since you all read this, there will be no photos until after the Day. Hints? Okay, here are hints. Things are really much further along than it appears, mothers, so fear not. I understand the importance of the ACTUAL DAY.

Pimpin' the Createalong! Extra: thoughts on body image

One of the links on the bottom right of this page will take you to the Createalong! I am in the process of working on a design for this group, and, to avoid redundancy, will not write about it here. I encourage everyone to check out the site and, if you're design-minded, join up! There are a lot of interesting projects in process, as well as discussion about the individual creative process.

My project is called the Small Bust Godsend, inspired by my thoughts on knitting for individual body types, sizing in clothing and knits, and, in general, body understanding and acceptance. There's been a lot of this sort of discussion in the air, what with books like Big Girl Knits (note the OVERWHELMINGLY positive reviews on this one... much deserved, too!) and Twinkle's Big City Knits (contrast the reviews on this one! WHOA! NASTY! I bought it immediately, by the way. 28 inch busts on things meant to stretch? SIGN ME UP!!!).

It's very difficult to read reviews that imply that everyone thin has the body of an 8-year-old or is anorexic. Some of us with 30 or 32 inch AA busts have our own trouble finding clothing that fits and flatters. Please, everyone, learn to love and accept your own body and create clothes to make it look its best. Having been into weight training for the last 11 years, I have never read this sentiment expressed better than it is RIGHT HERE. Now, go run a mile or buy a new lipstick or get a haircut or pedicure or whatever makes you feel pretty.

Or box someone.