I read a blog, The Bearded Iris, and she is one funny lady!

She seems to have passed out last week and bless her heart, her retelling of the incident was hilarious! So, I left a comment. Well, you could have knocked me over with a feather when ASassyRedhead let me know that I was mentioned on Iris’ blog! wahoo! I’m famous again! I’m Kat1e in case you don’t know that’s my usual handle; there are just too many Katie’s out there. After all, when you grow up with the name Katie Boyd living on Meadow Tree Ct. and there is a girl named Katy Boyd living on Meadow Tree Ln., you begin to feel somewhat common and learn to think of ways to distinguish yourself. I’m not saying I married TH because he had a wickedly crazy awesome unique last name, but I can tell you that I’d have taken longer to hit on him if his last name had been Smith.

Ps. I’m not gonna lie, it is really nice to be able to say, can you just look it up by my last name? I promise I’m the only one.
Pps. If you’re Iris and you want me to take your photo down, just let me know.

Update: Turns out I committed two faux pas with this post:
1. I linked to Iris and called her hilarious the day she blogged about discussing rape with her daughter. sorry.
2. Evidently, you are not supposed to blog about blogging. Hmmm…well, it is my blog, so I guess I can make my own rules….so, I guess there’s just the one.

I had some trouble with this puppy…pun intended. The pattern is Sheep Dreams by Dori Betjemann. There is errata. In my humble opinion, I think there should be errata for the errata. I figured everything out and I’m sure Dori is a lovely lady, but heaven help us, can someone test knit for her/the book?
In the end, I CO 127 (8 extra) and increased 1 and likewise decreased 1. In retrospect, I would like to have increased more (because the border seems a tad wider than the body), but since I had a pattern I decided to roll with it. In the end, I was VERY pleased with the final product, so I believe I’ll stop whining now. The Scotties are from a sweater pattern. L saved the pattern when she ran across it for just this purpose (when M had kiddos).

Note: My first cast-off was Jeny’s surprisingly stretchy bind off. It was so much looser than my cast on that I had to rip it out and do a more traditional bind off. That was too tight. So, in the end I ended up doing a loose traditional bind off and that seemed to be just right.