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So, I finished the seams on my clogs while on the road to Clarksville, TN last week. I felted them on Sunday, but after several trips through the washer, they were just too darned long. I gave it another go today and while they were in the wash, the string I had tying the pillowcase closed broke and when I went to check the progress, I saw a hint of purple in the basin. Dang it, one of the clogs escaped the bag!

Just as I feared, it was waaaaay smaller than the other one, which was still too long. I put the other one back in the bag and ran another cycle while I put the small one on my foot and worked it until it finally was big enough to fit. The other one finally shunk and I think I finally have a somewhat matching set of felted clogs. I’ll let them dry a couple of days and they’ll be ready to wear!

I finally got photographic evidence that I met Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (aka The Yarn Harlot) at the book signing in Indianapolis, IN. She was just as funny the 2nd time around and so nice, even after several hours of signing (I arrived a little late and was one of the last dozen or so in line). She even remembered having met me Denver. She’s the best!

I found a cool site advertised on Ravelry called Kanine Knits. In addition to selling a yarn that is part Samoyed, there is a pattern for an Alaskan Malamute sweater that I want to get.

Here are some cool places I found or was shown this week - documenting them for future reference.

Celtic Cross Stitch has a cool pattern generator that will make a cross-stitch chart out of the type you enter in a neat Celtic font.

Someone on a message board I frequent pointed me to this Links page of all sorts of knitting and crochet links.

Ann the Gran is a site dedicated to machine embroidery. I was told this is a great starting point for my new hobby/career.

A woman at the yarn shop yesterday was wearing the cutest top that she had made from a pattern she found on a web site named Knitty.com. I wanted to make a note of that to remember to check it out.