Wanna Go Shopping? STOLEN SWEATER UPDATE

This post is for my friends in the Portland, Oregon area.  This morning I got an e-mail from the lovely and dear-hearted Elif, who was in the Broadway Goodwill last night and found two of my stolen sweaters.  Tina, the manager of that store says that they sometimes send sweaters out to other stores when their racks get too full, so there is a possibility that others are waiting to be found in other Goodwill stores.  If you are free to do so today, and find yourself in the vicinity of a Goodwill store in the Portland area - won't you please help me to take a look for them?  If you are lucky enough to find one or more of the stolen pieces, please take them to the store manager and ask them to hold the piece(s) until I can come collect them, then just drop me a line at mary@maryscotthuff.com. Rewards will be given to Elif, and anybody else who helps me make a recovery!

Thank you my friends!

Love Mary

PS - the sweaters Elif found are the Wedding Belle, and Being Koi.  Bless Her.

Office Supplies

Sometimes I just can't believe my good fortune.  Not only do I get to make knitting for my job, I'm surrounded by beautiful creative souls who want to help me do it, and who let me have their gorgeous art for my inspiration.  I hope I do their work justice.  And I hope what I do will inspire the knitters. 

Here are some raw materials I'm working with today.  Dreamy, no?  These are all classic Abstract Fiber colors, done up on a brand new yarn base, which I think we are all really going to like.  It's called "Calder", a superwash merino sportweight.    Watch for it in my new book:  I'm making a garment I've never made before (who knew there was a part of the anatomy I have yet to knit for?), using a technique I've never tried, in a yarn I know nothing about.  What could possibly go wrong?  I'm not worried, because I have the advantage of ignorance.  When the expectation bar starts out artificially low, there's no real way to be disappointed in the execution.

Today, in addition to playing with string, I'm internalizing all your insightful comments about what makes a popular knitting pattern.  I'm so grateful to you for your input.  You echoed a lot of my own observations, and offered many I hadn't considered.  Thanks, all of you, for being so smart, and for spreading it around. 


 

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Three Dog Night

Yeah, I know.  It's a knitting blog.  But something followed me home from my sister's house which is way cuter than anything I'm knitting at the moment:

This is Barclay, Susie's Westie.  He needed a day at the beauty spa, so Susie and her kids said he could come home to Portland with me for a vacation.  Now that I can groom Scotties, it seemed like I ought to be able to help out a Westie - he IS our cousin, after all.

Everybody's having a good time together:

from left: Paisley, Bailey and Barclay on the kitchen island.

They all got hairdoos (over the course of 3 days, that is - turns out I groom dogs way slower than I knit), after which it seemed like there should be a photo.  The only way I could get everyone to hold still long enough was to put them someplace too high to jump off of.  Though as you can see, Bailey was thinking about it anyway.

Morning walkies are quite a parade, but as long as the doo-doo baggies hold out, we should be okay.  This weekend we're heading up to Redmond for the Black and White Festival, where I'm sure the Mother Ship will be waiting for us all.

Anybody know where to find a pattern for an Argyle dog sweater?