Howdy all,

The days are getting longer, but still cold and dreary. The snow removal strikes continue. What’s a knitter to do during the shortest and arguably coldest month of the year?

Come down to Ariadne the weekend of Feb 13-14 for our Annual Valentines Day Massacre. Basic silliness and stupidity will reign, as well as a pile of cupcakes, cookies other junk food, and a host of new stock and patterns including:

• MochiMochiLand
• Celestial Yarns (aka Lucy Neatby)
• A new line of Cascade
• New Lanaknits
• New colours of Koigu
• More Projekt B!
• A long awaited shipment of Burly Spun!

Come on down and check out what we have on offer, what we will have discounted and don’t forget the ever-favourite Sock o’ Savings to see what discount you can get!

Hope to see you there!

Another year, another Valentine’s Day Massacre!

Yes, we’re doing it again.

No, not taking out a rival gang!  We’re too peaceable and non-violent.  Right? Right???  Besides, we haven’t actually taken out a rival gang as yet, even though we really enjoy  snapping in formation.

Ahem.

Anyhoo, the weekend of February 13th and 14th we’re having an EVENT.  We haven’t worked out all the details yet, but you can expect:

* Reduced Prices!

* The Sock of Savings!

* New Stock!

* Junk Food!

* Other Cool Stuff!

* Even More Cool Stuff!

So mark it in your calendar, okay?

To prepare, go watch this (while knitting of course):

Brought to you by Roger Corman, the man behind such films as Little Shop of Horrors, Humanoids from the Deep, and Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia to name a few.  It’s sure to be a faithful, well-researched, historically accurate rendition.

Back when I first adopted my cat Gigi, my friend the Roving Reporter suggested that she required a beret.  I mean, look at this face:

Because I am a master procrastinator, one day I decided that of all the things on my mental list of possible projects, this was the one I should make happen.  To save at least a little time (you know, so I could get more procrastinating in), I decided that if I could find a pattern I’d use that instead of working out my own.

I did a little search on Ravelry and came up with the International Cat Hat: France, le Mieux by Stacy Mar.

If you aren’t my Ravelry friend (mollyann, just in case) or if you are and don’t constantly check your “friend activity” (i.e. enabled stalking) then you will have missed the finished result:

I am convinced that Gigi is the cutest cat ever.

That said, she did not happily just wear the hat.  She is very placid, but she’s still a cat, so I had to choose my time wisely.  I woke her up, so she sat mostly immobile with it perched on her head and then hunkered down again for her morning nap:

As far as I know, she does not wear the hat around when I’m not home.

This isn’t quite horror-inspiring, but for some reason I feel compelled to share.

Nothing is more manly than a cardigan with a picture on it:

That thermos is no doubt full of strong, black, masculine coffee.