Shop Announcement! (hee.)

My Etsy shop is up! I will be selling my handmade Christmas cards there for the next little while. What I will do after Christmas ... I don't know. I'll figure it out later. But this has been something like two years in the making, so it's nice to have it finally done. Now I can get back to actually making the cards, which would be nice. I've got a few new ideas I've been doodling around with ...

Anyway, in case you can't guess, I spent most of the weekend setting up the shop. (Well, there was other stuff. There was an excellent brunch, for example, and open houses, and a hockey game that would have been heartbreaking if we hadn't already given up on the Leafs.) I also knit:


This is Pierre's not-unexpected Christmas present. (Big sweater cardigans are not good stealth projects.) It's the Daniel pattern from Twist Collective, and it's knitting up fast, which is a bit of a relief. This is the left front; I've already got the back done. The yarn is Manos del Uruguay Wool Clasica, in the new naturals line, and the colour is nothing like the picture — it's much more of a woodsy, dark brown oatmeal kind of colour. I love it. It's a bit thickie-thin and rustic (but softer than it looks) and the heathered colour and slubby bits give the vast yards of stockinette good interest. It should be warm, too, which is just what he wanted.

When I went to the Purple Purl to buy an extra skein, they told me that Manos del Uruguay just got their fair trade certification. I didn't even know that yarn could (or couldn't) be fair trade, but it made my hippie little heart happy.

And finally, about a week ago, we had some friends over to play Beatles Rock Band (which is über fun, by the way), and it turns out that my cat has a secret life as a roadie:


She may want to work on that narcolepsy thing first, though.