Greetings dear Unraveler’s!

If you are participating in The Great Mulch Watch… the garden beds still don’t have any new mulch. Sigh. I am not holding my breath for any mulch deliveries before Friday… so yes, I will likely have to weed a bit in the sauna that outside has become!

If you were anxiously anticipating the new Gnome Reveal… your wait is over!

Gnoddy with his big sister, Gniddy!

Here are Gniddy and Gnoddy all set to join the Gnome Village in the Big Blue Cupboard! Again, I circle back to the delight of Sarah Schira’s “Recipe Book” that makes modifying gnomes easy… and the “gnome parts” like noses and beards are all “interchangeable” so instead of the large round nose she used for her version of Gnoddy… I selected the small nose which was constructed exactly like the hands and hat top-knot… a small bit of I-cord joined together in a circle!

Hair attachment worked well!

Some months ago, I had an idea for Girl Gnome Hair… and the construction on Gnoddy allowed me to give it a try! The hat brim hides how I threaded a double strand of yarn around a knit stitch. It worked better than I imagined! I will absolutely be using this technique again!

Heading off to the Big Blue Cupboard!

I also made a knitting bag for Gniddy… cast on an odd number of stitches and then did several rows of seed stitch until I had a bag size I was happy with. Then I bound off all but three stitches, which became the I-cord for the bag. Sew up the two sides and voilà! A Gnome Knitting Bag!

Although I am plugging away on my green vest, I still have a ways to go before I can start the ribbing so what did I do… swatched for a new project! Ha! Yes, I am going to knit another Shakerag Top… this time with Kino Ito! Yep, the yarn I used in the great marled scarf! Kino Ito is available right now from Kay and Ann… and really, it is such lovely yarn to knit with! At this writing (Tuesday night) the swatch is not totally dry, but my gauge was spot on before giving it a soak and in it’s almost dry state so I cast on!

I am reading two books… one in my ears – John Boyne’s The Boy at the Top of the Mountain. And before bed, a Georges Simenon Maigret book – The Yellow Dog! Now this book was first published back in the 30’s but it came from Netgalley. I have never read any of the Maigret stories, so I thought… what the heck! And I am so glad I did! I am about halfway through the short book and loving it!

I also picked up the latest (and Pulitzer Prize winning) book of poetry: Marie Howe New and Selected Poems. I read a few poems a day over the past three weeks and she has given me so much to think about!

That is all I have for today, what about you? Have you been itching to start something new?

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