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Saturday, April 22, 2006
  Mmm, wrap it, wrap it real good
Hooray! I have finished the wrap and I love love it. Not that I have sewn ends in, or anything that final, but it is done. Never have I knit so much garter stitch. Never would I have known how effective wrapping oneself in nothing but knit knit knit could be! I am actually going to photograph my actual self tomorrow wearing said wrap. Watch out.

Wowsers trousers, I won something! Check out Katt's blog. I won something and I am so excited, I just can't hide it! Now I need to work on my sock skills and make myself something so beautiful, so impressive and so wonderful I will be proud to show you all.

On another note, I went to the library today and got four knitting books, including one about history which is fascinating, and a May Gibbs book, which you could only inflict upon those under 5 (thankfully I have one of those) and another which has pics of patterns, which will help me choose the next MIL scarf. I am contemplating taking knitting on the plane on Thursday, although us Tasmanians have been known to create a rucus on aircraft. Whaddayareckon? Have any of you flown domestically, needles in hand? Photos tomorrow, I promise!

On yet another note, we went to check out the Graeme Base exhibition today, which was oh so good, especially for us grown ups. What a clever man. He draws something, and then uses tracing paper in order to redraw and make minor modifications and then repeats, repeats, repeats until he has what he wants. Perhaps I could learn something from Mr. Base. No one, nowhere ever creates something perfect the first time around, do they? Create, reflect, refine and recreate.
 
Comments:
I love your Devo title for your post today!! I spend happy hours thinking of punny titles for my blog. I have no life!!! I want to see the wrap too!!
The Libraray does have a few knitting book gems, but NOT ENOUGH!!! I ahve A Gathering of Lace at the moment!!!
 
Can't wait to see the wrap, and well done on winning the competition over at Katts blog. In case you want to give them a try here is the link for the 8ply socks I use:

http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter05/PATTthuja.html

I don't know about knitting on the plane, as far as I know needles are still banned, might pay to check first, you don't want to have your knitting taken off you.
 
Glad to see you are as excited as I am about our big win!
Love your blog by the way.

A friend of our's runs security at Coolangatta airport and she says NO to needles. They can do alot of damage apparently. Yea, but nothing compared to the damage a disgruntled knitter can cause!!
 
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