Recently in Blissful Category

It seems my humble Mirabella sock pattern has found its way into Ravelry, and I've gotten a few requests for it. I've taken it down in the meantime, to *finally* revise the instructions for yarn-over short rows. I'll put the pattern back up, as a post, by this weekend. My apologies. I've posted the pattern here, with corrections made.

Here are some snippets of quilt number two. Warm chocolate brown in a fabric goes really well with just about anything. In this case, all the colorways of Amy Butler's Bliss collection.

There has been knitting. Reading Lori's post on frogging encouraged me to look at one of my oldest projects and assess my progress, or lack thereof. I looked long and hard, and finally decided that even though it was cables, and knit top-down with set-in sleeves, it was turning into the sort of project that one finishes for the sake of finishing, not for wearing. And I'd hate to waste all that fluffy green yarn on a crap project.

So I frogged it.

Said fluffy green yarn is now working up into another top-down sweater with cables. But this time? This time, I like it. Third time's the charm!

Links:
◊ There's a statistic that 40% of food produced in the U.S. is wasted, for such silly reasons as "it's ugly". Isn't that terrible? Wasted Food is an informative site on food waste.
◊ YouTube has all sorts of dog clips. These two are fascinating: "amazing dog" and "one-sided dog".
◊ Lively Grey: about color.
◊ A kids' sushi rolling machine.
◊ Via Kottke, a tale of Oscar the Cat.
◊ Everyone's heard about lolcats.

Just a quick post. Binding! A walking foot is very useful. And of course, my seam is more than a quarter inch; a wider slice of flowers will fit this mostly solid quilt nicely.

Ah, an IM from a client. Bye!

I don't know how I came to be so busy, but I am. Late night freelancing isn't much fun. So many little things on my To Do list--my apologies to the Stranded KAL girls!

In my free time (which means lunch break, or waiting for client feedback) I've been working on another quilt. A real, quilted quilt, mind you. Once again, using Amy Butler's fabrics, from her Ginger Bliss collection. I'm calling this my Blissful quilt. May I present some lovely binding:

And the return of linkage:

◊ LAist.com provides lots of linkage in this post, including the Idiotarod in New York, an interview with the Top Chef runner-up, and a lost chicken found.

◊ CSA Design has more Pop Ink plates. They've gotten into the current, overdone trend in graphics: silhouettes and intricate backgrounds. I fancy the Cannibal plates myself.

◊ Cupcake Bakeshop has a roundup of yummy cupcakes to make.

◊ Jonesing for Spam?

◊ How about a tasty Filipino halo-halo?

◊ Lots of quilting! Perhaps a title change is necessary? Quilters Buzz is a great quilting blog. Here are all the Kaffe Fassett entries; the Denyse Schmidt and Flea Market Fancy entries; the Heather Ross (she of the cute gnomes and toadstool prints entries; and--because I'm in a soon-to-be-gotten-over romantic-and/or-shabby-florals phase--the Robyn Pandolph entries. Enjoy!