MouseGarden

As well as scarves I also make gift tags.

This one features my favourite stamp by Memory Box of Fred P. Bear.  Underneath is a quote from a stamp from Rivercity Rubberworks Stamps, now sadly closed.

It sums up my mixed feelings about fruitcake.

I like this polar bear, wearing a scarf and looking fairly happy.  He's a very clear graphic stamp.  I lean towards wooden block stamps more strongly than the cling type.

I tried a project yesterday which was a failure.  Yesterday's project was going to be an infinity scarf, but the knitting rolled more than expected.  But now I know what doesn't work in that yarn.  Sometimes there is no other way to find out than to knit it and see.

Today I bought some nice wine red chunky yarn.  I wasn't supposed to be buying any more, but it is a gorgeous shade of red.  I haven't actually finished my other red scarf I'm knitting yet.  Like books, I don't always knit just one thing at once.

Where I live it is snowing a lot.  A LOT.  I am lucky it didn't all land for Halloween.  In the past there have been Halloween nights with snow and extremely cold temperatures, which really cuts out the fun.  This year Halloween night had rain, which I don't remember ever having happened before.  Very atmospheric though.

I recently posted my biggest scarves on Etsy.  I hope to eventually sell on my blog as well.

Big scarves are satisfying but very time consuming.  I like the way they are soft and squishy acrylic that drapes really well.  I like plain bold colours best.  Some of them have tassels.  This red one doesn't, it seemed to look fine without.


Oh, that reminds me. Following on from the last post, I did eventually catch the other goldfish, by finding it lounging near the top before the weather went cold.  It was quite cross about it, but then it got to rejoin all its friends indoors.  The pond isn't deep enough for fish to overwinter in it.