Sunday, January 25, 2004

Our wonderful new brown bunny has arrived. DH has renamed her Peaches and I've never seen such a large rabbit. I think she is close to 15 lbs. She adores the cats and has already been doing binkies/bunny jumps (it sounds like a herd of elephants!) and flipping onto her side - two signs of bunny contentment. I'll take photos tomorrow - I'm in heaven with a new lagomorph to love.



I wanted to add some tubular cast on info I received in the Squawkboxtv comments which didn't show up on the blog again. Kerstin says the tubular CO looks best with K1,P1 rib and it slants for K2P2 rib. Kerstin - the half hitch cast on is the same as what VK calls the Single Cast On. JBB says she used the tubular cast on for a ribbed hat in Charlene Schurch's Hat's On book - that seems like a neat place to use it. She points out that this book contains some other neat cast ons.

Robin says she watched an EZ/Meg Swansen video and they were using the tubular cast on for a ribbed gansey. Sandrine says she does the tubular cast on for both K1P1 and K2P2 rib including in circular knitting and she used it for her beautiful Kongle - check her blog entry for 1/18/04.



Here are my new Bernat Aero circulars and dpns. For some reason you can only buy these from Canada. Also, the smaller sizes of dpns give you 5 needles but you only get four with the larger sizes. They're quite inexpensive - prices shown are Canadian.