Introduction and the Last of the Toppers

The Creator finally left the little blue box in the room. Now, I can spill more beans about what goes on in this room.

First, I have a new roving correspondent. We call her ‘NSYNC gurl. I know, she is a bubbly blonde stuck in the 1990s but that is what I have been given to work with. She also is in bad need of a styling and hair cut because she wears this cap thing. But, she is part of my plastic family, so, I must not say too much about all this. And she is my roving correspondent. I have tasked her with typing and taking photos. It’s great to have a minion! Here she is sitting on top.

Project News from the Creator

It appears The Creator has finished two more toppers! I wish he would leave them on my top so that I don’t catch a chill. It isn’t going to be good to get plastic sick. I hate cracking. Hat number 1 is from that Crazy Zauerball in all different colors. It is a bit stiff and itchy. It needs a good soak before it is sent off.



The other is a blue topper. Evidently, this is The Creator’s first color work. All his knitting gurl deemed it that he should write the pattern down and sell it on Ravelry. I don’t know if he will do that, but, they seem to think it will sell at $3 a pattern. We will see. I like the blue one. It is made from Rowan Cashsoft Aran weight. Evidently it is dreamy to knit with and it just slides off the needles in nothing flat. I am trying to get the creator to make me something it. 

Here it is with me modeling it! I think I look right dapper with this topper.

The Creator has also figured out the pattern for the Squirrel Blanket. He sat on my floor one day last week and figured it out. It appears that it was a technical issue where the yarn is wrapped opposite from the way he normally wraps it around the crochet hook. Now, it all looks right and he has six rows of the blue done. Just 14 more to go I think. I should have sent ‘Nsync gurl over to see what rows he really needs to do. She isn’t versed yet in reporting things. She still has problems with shiny objects.

I also need to let you all know what the creator bought on his last trip to Tucson. He came back with a basket full of stuff. But, the night is almost over and I need to put everything back the way it was. It is the way of the plastic people.

Another New Topper!

The Creator came home last night and put this charming blue topper with a Airplane on it. Evidently, it was left behind by Ms. Skeindalous.



She also left a book that The Yarn Shop Owner Who Must Not Be Named said she would take care of. I wanted the book!!! The Creator wasn't looking after my best interest. He was not, I tell you. I like looking at books. I don't have enough in my room that go with all this yarn The Creator has.

He has also ripped out another scarf. I want a pretty scarf around my neck. It seems there were holes where the cables were supposed to be. Here is what he was attempting to do: The Lamar Scarf. All the yarn girls agreed that it should be frogged and something else done with it. Perhaps The Creator will use the appropriate chunky yarn for this project next time and not use that worsted silky yarn that gaps. Gaps were not supposed to be there.

He started something else for his trip last night. He has this lucious home-spun Blue Face Leicester that he will be making something like this with: one row handspun scarf. That Yarn Harlot can't go wrong. He thinks it will look lovely in his homespun yarn:



I'm thinking about getting me a roving correspondent. I think The Creator lies to me. I must search this little blue box for someone I can send with The Creator. Suggestions?

The Squirrel Repair Project

The Creator's friend, Mark, gave him a blanket to repair.



You see there in the black and the green where some little critters called squirrels nested. They felted red heart yarn in a few places. I hope The Creator doesn't model the finished product on me. I know he washed it several times in bleach and in pinesol and then once more just to make sure all squirrel goobers were gone.

Over the weekend, he has been figuring out the stitch of this blanket. He was a little confounded. You see, the cute little old lady that made this blanket, crochets with the yarn over the hook and not the yarn under the hook like he does. Once he got that, he started dancing in the room. It was weird. The black side is the begining side and he thinks he may use one of those crochet hooks with the string on it to pickup stitches and do the pattern in reverse. I don't think he knows what he is doing on that side of things. I will wait and see. It maybe interesting for a while here in my little room.

I snapped a picture for you all to see where he started with this project:

The Yarn Gurl's Yarn Exchange

A few day's ago, The Creator was all in a twitter about what he was going to give the yarn gurls he meets with in the Yarn Exchange. It was interesting to see him go through the 13 totes of yarn and The Bookcase to find something to give. I didn't get a chance to take a picture of what he gave. The little red box wasn't in the room for me to use. So, I will just have to describe it for you.

He wound up three skiens of handspun thick and thin yarn. The first skein was a lovely superwash merino in a red with a bit of purple and green. It rocked, but he didn't know what to do with this yarn. On top of that, he had a hard time finding the end of the yarn. He had it on that cross-stick thing that he puts skeins of yarn on to wind in to cakes. He couldn't find the end. He was spinning the yarn around and around and had all this yarn on the floor. I don't know why he did this. It looked a mess. He finally cut the yarn and caked it up with the hand caking machine. It looked lovely when done.

The second skien was this superwash merino hand-dyed purple & plum thick and thin yarn. He zipped that right up in to a cake and off he went.

He really had a hard time giving the next skein away. It was a yummy blue/green wool/silk hand spun thick and thin yarn. I had the skein around my plastic neck for a time and it was lovely sitting on my plastic.

Come to find out, Megan received the yarn. He said she was grateful and loved the yarn. It will be interesting to see what she makes out of it.

The Creator brought home a nice bag of Purple with a smattering of yellow yarn that Joy had offered. Take a look here:



That is 2 large skeins of Sumptuous in purple, some yellow wool for felting, a dark purple ball of Cotton Silk, 2 light purple balls of Classic Elite Cotton Bamboo, a light gray Classic Elite, a yellow Classic Elite, a ball of no name purple and a ball of a darker olive green thing. As a bonus, a small stitch book!

The Creator has ideas for the Sumptuous and the Classic Elite purples. The others, he will think upon and make something. I can see the wheels turning from here.