I feel slightly less guilty this week after checking a few non-spinning related items off my to-do list. I finally sat down and spent 36 hours in a row finishing Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince and even got some knitting done. The cat was very grateful that I was finally getting some reading done; he got a lot of lap time.

I invented a new pattern and I haven't decided if I should post it here in the 'free patterns' section or try to submit it to a knitting magazine. It's a winter coat... for beer! Since I loathe big knitting projects, I made another pint-sized sweater pattern that fits perfectly over a beer bottle to use as a koozie. (or is it coozie? or koozy? I don't think I've ever had to spell that word before.) Or maybe I'll post the pattern here with a drawstring strap for use as a cell phone cozy and modify it for submission as a beer cover. Or maybe next time I'll finish this conversation in my head before starting to write my blog post and not bother you nice people with my self-contained arguments or tease you with patterns that I have not yet provided.

But since I've already started with the pattern-teasing, I'll go ahead and continue by telling you that I have decided to post the pattern for my domo-kun fuzzy dice one of these days and also a few flowers I invented that I plan to use for my wedding bouquet. Who wants to bother finding fresh flowers in Vegas? Not me. I'm knitting mine. I have a knitted daffodil, gerbera daisy, and stargazer lily.

I will close with a secretive note about how a recent ebay purchase may soon lead to a large quantity of not-very-expensive fancy scarves for sale over in the store. Cross your fingers!