TRICK OR TREAT! 
Third baby afghan for the CURE Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan is ready to be put in the box with the other two and sent off to San Francisco for shipping to Afghanistan. This is my last one for now, but there is still time if you are moved to contribute your knitting skills to this great organization. Here is the link: http://www.afghansforafghans.org/blanket. What a great way to use up those random wool skeins in your stash. AND, it's fun. Mason-Dixon Knitting has a good section log cabin basics if you like this pattern, or use your favorite simple pattern that meets the critiria for CURE. Let me know what you choose.
Well, we definitely need practice. She was too risque au naturelle in the pink scarf. Now I find I am raiding my turtleneck stash for the perfect shirt/background. I think I need a better fitting black one. Maddie will be wearing a soft cream one today for the darker scarves and shawls. I already have her styled downstairs. Had to stop late yesterday afternoon to charge camera battery. Note to self: get a second battery.
I admit it, when I find something I like to knit, I never just knit one. When I returned to knitting regularly about 12 years ago, even while I was weaving and teaching weaving, I became obsessive. First it was socks, about eight pair right off the bat, then the whole knitting washcloth/dishrag thing. Don't have numbers high enough for that. (I translated that into first baby afghan for Afghanistan this fall. Old habits dye hard.) Then it was baby hats and sweaters, followed by Sirdar Snowflake baby blankets. Skip to the present, I broke from the whole how-many-shawls/scarves-can-I-knit swirl to launch into the dog sweaters. Evidence of that is seen previously here on this blog. Now I am loving the log cabin pattern to knit these baby Afghans to send to the CURE Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. The finished one is second afghan, first log cabin, the WIP (work in Progress) or #3, is pictured still on the needles. I have used up so much stash yarn on these, that I am going to call it a success and not let myself start a third log cabin. I am contemplating doing a smaller one out of my Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino, but that after the holidays. Yeah, right.
Well, it was heels and fancy handbag yesterday as I headed to Neiman Marcus downtown for a kids style show. Zoe and Charley walked the runway in super cool duds bought for them by Momo, my counterpart grandmother. Zoe's working it in a Juicy Coutour workout suit in black velour with very cool silver lettering. Charley punctuated his super hip jeans and shirt with blinking sunglasses and dirty bucks. Lots of smiles watching all the kids from babies to teens strut their stuff. Then it was off to an elegant lunch in the Zodiac room. What did the kids have? Peanut Butter and Jelly, of course!
Wool is still my favorite fiber. Yes, bamboo is soft and drapy. Yes, Seacell makes merino extra soft as seen in the sapphire , but wool is the base of these blends. I am having fun listing more dyed wool churro, more funky natural handspuns, and then my whole cache of gorgeous millspun medium grey Lincoln yarn. This yarn takes dye beautifully to give a heathery effect. Oh, and the little potpourris, like this Fall sampler here are a way to try churro in projects like needle felting. 
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