Preparing for a road trip — Tippy and I rode in the back of the utility van to Wisconsin & back.

Finally finished my mittens with the fancy sterling silver-laced wool. The pattern was great - but quite big for my hands. I took the finger covering down a lot, but it was actually helpful to have more room in there so I could line the mittens with fleece, an absolute necessity for Minnesota. Without the lining, you might as well not be wearing mittens…

This is the pattern I used from Knitty.com, and I tore up an old pair of convertible mittens for a liner pattern.

I’m enamored (and slightly frightened) by this vintage sharps style. Reminds me of old friends in Atlanta in the mid-nineties. Check out the girl with the pin curls! Bryan has forbidden me to cut my hair, since he sent it to me with the subject line, “bad skinhead mullets” … we’ll see!

Also working on a pattern to upload and print on Spoonflower.com. Here’s a sneak peek; I’m tracing in Illustrator first since I scanned this from a book.

The last weekend before winter comes (we think) and we did as much as we could to finish up. Shaun & Bryan kicked butt on the painting this week.

We’re selling some furniture on Craig’s List, so, to explain, this is Bryan talking to our neighbor, while holding the squirrel trap that Tip finds infinitely fascinating (smells like squirrel and peanut butter, her favorites), all in the dresser mirror.

And a gratuitously cute picture of Tippy, of course.