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Nothing says “I love you” like the gift of knitted and crocheted food.

Bonus Link:
Nothing says “I love tormenting my pets” like piling random stuff on them.

And I thought size 1’s were small - here are some amazing examples of fair isle sweaters, argyle socks, plaid skirts, and other intricate knitting projects made on teeny tiny needles. I don’t play with dolls and my niece is starting to grow out of them, but the prospect of knitting a fashion doll-scaled coat is verrry tempting…

(note the first link’s author uses a couple naughty words in her post; for those who are sensitive to that kind of thing, just skip the text and soak in the pictures; the second link is for a site that offers patterns and supplies for micro-knitting)

• The Tiniest Sweater
• Scott Maloney Fashions

In the grand tradition of knitted animals as headgear, I bring you… the squid hat.

Oh, I totally want to make some of these!

So, the blog is back, and it’s not just for travel anymore.

A few things have been driving this:

• I’ve been off the social radar this past year and have been feeling like I need to reconnect with people
• Ted has has been posting Web updates more regularly with a brand new blog of his own, and now I feel I need to compete for your love it’s been very inspiring! It got me to thinking about all the various areas of my Web site where I am manually logging my life, so why not compile it in a database and let blogging software do the grunt work?
• I recently installed an RSS feed reader and love it love it love it. Everyone should offer an RSS feed. Really.
• See, so it would be hypocritical of me to demand that of everyone else until I provided one of my own. Ergo, I blog. Let the demands commence.

So here’s the result. I’ve gathered all the entries from the home log, my knitting projects, the front page, and our past travel blogs and brought it all together here. I know it’s probably just the db geek in me, but seeing all of my entries categorized and organized and stored in a databse >joy!< secretly thrills me.

Here’s a knitwear designer who’s making innovative use of self-patterning sock yarn, with patterns for absolutely adorably baby wear. Check it out.

This came out in conjunction with the Knitting Olympics of late, but contains lots of good advice to follow for knitting or typing or mousing or any other repetetive motion activity

He’s young, he’s nerdy-hip, and his patterns have been featured in several issues of Knitty (the most recent being this year’s winter surprise). It’s always nice to see more boys with sticks out there.