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I have to put in a word here for a couple of my favorite yarns. I run the risk here of exposing myself as perhaps more strange and obsessed with strange things than any of you previously suspected, but lately I feel the urge to express myself. So if I want to post about my favorite yarn, then by golly, that’s-a-what-I’m-gonna-do! Read the rest of this entry »

Okay, having begun to knit in 2005, mostly to have something cheap to do with my hands while James was in New Orleans trying to get back into our neighborhood after the stupid hurricane, I have now become proficient enough at it to need real supplies.  Right now I have a long plastic needle case with a few different needls of various sizes and a small yarn “stash” - I don’t think you could even really call it a stash, though.  Every skein of yarn I have (and some I don’t have) is already alotted to a project, or it’s a bit of a skein from a different project.

My point is that I’ve decided I need an entire set of double pointed needles, circular needles, and straight needles, and I also need cable needles of more than one size and I really really need a place to put it all. Right now all the knitting stuff is organized in plastic bags stacked up inside a wicker hamper thing with a lid I got at Big Lots.  My ferret Mab likes to scale it like MT. Everest, in hopes of reaching still greater heights, but I moved it away from the kitchen table, so she is routinely disappointed.

The only reason I say this is that I’m tired of getting a new pattern only to discover that I not only need yarn, but I also have to buy needles.  I guess that’s why James has all those drill bits.  He just likes to be prepared.

Yep, that’s right. I’m going to be reduced to one of those people who starts fights on the internet. No, I’m not a forum troll, although I have annoyed quite a few people in my intermittent forum rovings: I may have to fight over 30 bucks with an online merchant.

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This would be such a great thing to make, if I had a dremel tool… Still, if you aren’t crafty, Rachel has many novelty USB keys for sale, too!

This could be the solution to my desire for all things novelty USB. Everytime I see a new USB key shaped like food, or animals, or Jerry Garcia (ok I made that one up) I covet it to the extreme, but usually they are cost-prohibitive. Besides paying for the key, you have to pay for the cutesy container. If you can find a deal on the USB key, and then go to the dollar store and find a Hot Wheels car or a novelty keychain, it could be cheaper, and certainly more rewarding to build your own!