These are finally finished! (or as finished as they are going to get for the time being.) Very pleased with how they turned out, and Aaron is also. I brought them to my knitting circle last week, and several people picked up on the skull pattern and the El Dia de los Muertos concept without me saying a word. Yes, my knitting friends are perceptive, but they also know me well enough to know this type of project is not unusual for me. (skull motif pattern here!)

Newest knitting project is a bobbled handbag from pink stretchy jersey T-shirt edging. Picked up a roll of it at SCRAP a week or so ago. Been really leaning towards knitting with non-yarn materials these days. I also have some corduroy carpet edging that I want to play with.

I’ve been going crazy with borrowing crafty books from the library over the last few weeks. I was very intrigued by a book on knitting with dog fur, but as much as Indy sheds he greyhound fur is not quite right for spinning. I might re-approach the idea in the winter. Also got the Debbie Stoller knitting for men book (title escapes me at the moment) and Aaron has asked me to re-work their robot tie pattern into a zombie one. I’ve been playing with Photoshop trying to get the grid right, but it should look pretty cool.

Many thanks to Sister Diane of DIYalert for interviewing me for PDX Profile. Interview can be found here: http://www.diyalert.com/node/5083

Union Rose is celebrating its first anniversary on July 25th and 26th. Big sidewalk sale, lots of fun stuff, and yours truly will be helping out at the kids’ craft area in the afternoon. More details available at http://www.unionrosepdx.com/calendar.html