The pattern is from domestic sphere - scroll down the the bulky baby asymmetrical cardigan for any gauge yarn. I made it in Muench from Tessin Yarn, in lime green. The buttons are from Joann Fabric. And seriously? I love this pattern. Very easy to make, and very easy to adapt. After doing the left front, I realized the stockinette made the edge roll, so on the right front edge, I used a 5-stich seed-stitch. Very simple. I can see that with a yarn that was less busy than the one I was using, one could put in all sorts of fun patterns and use all sorts of great stitch combinations.
And the best part? Momma, Poppa, and the little girl who it was for all love it.
From llhinkle
Yesterday, the nation took an exam, and it would seem we failed. But what do you do when a class fails an exam? Do you give up on education? No…here’s what you do:
1. Look at the possible faults of the exam. Is the electoral college system really working for us? Is the campaign system we have in place working for us? We have four years to work to change it.
2. See the pattern of error your students demonstrated, and remediate. Our nation has embraced a false religion, a religion of money and greed, of ownership of other people’s bodies….we must spend every day teaching America how to be tolerant, honorable, and selfless.
3. Re-test. And we will, in four years…and in every congressional election, and every day when we call into accountability every leader whether we chose them or not.
….
I call you to arms. We do not have time to cry, to wallow, to linger in our disbelief.
Get up. It’s after 5am.
Let’s go to work.
I’ve never been a big Halloween-dresser-upper, but this year was just too enticing. Amy and I decided to go as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully - pretty easy, all things considered.
Amy (as Fox) wore: a grey wool blazer that I got for $5 at a thrift store, a pair of blue jeans, some (softball-dirt-stained) white socks, black loafers, and a white button-down that I found at Target for $19.
I (as Dana) wore: my grey suit jacket, my blue jeans, black socks, my black boots, a white shirt with a “johnny collar”, and a small cross pendant on a chain. I also tried to dye my hair Scully-orange, but it just ended up as a (gorgeous) russet instead. Apparently it’s time for me to get back into dying my hair, because this color rocks! I found some reddish lipstick, too, and wore that.
On Saturday, I poked all around the internet and found images of the FBI badges they have - both the wallet ones and the hanging ones for when they’re inside the Bureau. I printed them out and laminated them. We put the wallet ones in our wallets, hung the hanging ones on our shirts, and called it a costume. We headed to Mac’s for a party, and generally had a good time. Somehow I managed to fall asleep during the creepy movie “The Changeling”. I’m not upset.
Aren’t we cute?:
friends, knitting | Megan 11/8/2004 | 
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