Look, Ma, no hands!

Here's the latest addition to the menagerie - a big old fuzzy inchworm!
No strings, no pipecleaners, no hidden mirrors! Suprisingly simple to make, it stands up on its own and inches right along!

Pattern coming soon, of course!

If you make one out of silk it would be totally meta. The photo on my cutting mat is making me think Tron-like thoughts. A glow-worm, perhaps? Wheee!

Personal Cloud

John from Geek Out New York points out a wacky new gizmo that will make a cloud out of all the words on your blog (or whatever other text you paste into it) - here's a visual representation of the most often-occurring words in this here blog, the whole way back to the first post last March. You may note that "butter" is about the same size as "knit". Hmmm... and I thought this was mostly a knitting blog... Want to make your own - check out Wordle.net.

Doodlebugs Ho!

It's been one heck of a week! I had a wonderful if sweltering birthday party with mucho friends and rose-petal scones and presents, visited with the uberfabulous Sascha, flew a kite at the beach, got published in Knitty, got taken out for yet still more birthday fabulousness, and saw Kung Fu Panda! Whew!Without further ado, here's today's big news - the Doodlebug pattern is live in the shop - it's probably the simplest toy pattern I've come up with so far - it's worked on straight needles with some simple seaming - I hope you'll enjoy it!

Autogyro is Go!

Hey everybody - check out my pattern in the new Knitty! Father-son propeller beanies! I'm so proud. The pattern is over here.