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My birthday's not until the end of the month and I'm certainly in no mood to celebrate, but I did buy myself a few early birthday presents - in addition to the Denise needle set (cleverly rationalized as an economical alternative to investing in several long circulars), this morning I ordered Cascade 220 from Threadbear for a market bag, as seen on Black Dog. Once again, I'm knocked out by the very swift, very friendly service, and excellent selection and prices. Rob said he'd made the same bag in colors similar to my choices - a rich red, a deep purple, teal, and gold, with black trim - and it turned out great, so I'm very jazzed about this project. Next up will have to be that Obi sweater.


I'm also going through the yarn stash, thanks to Nanette Blanchard's good influence. She mentioned a women's prison in WV that needs yarn for the inmates' knitting project, and I'm loading a box today. Here's the link: Alderson Hospitality House. It's perfect for the sizeable remnants of projects past, as well as the inevitable "What was I thinking?" yarn lurking in every crazed knitter's stash.

Still mousing - in stripes now. I also need to hurry up and make a felted teddy bear for Murphy. Yesterday I discovered that the catnip mice I made for my own cats are being held hostage under the bed, in Murphy's Secret Hideout. I need to arrange a hostage exchange - a bear of his very own for the mice.