Blog #4 or, Love Sucks and why didn't I just stick to dating girls? Lord knows they are a hell of a lot prettier, even the butchest ones....

And the title pretty much sums up my feelings on that.

Onto sewing!

I have been getting lots of little bits and bobs done up. I actually finished up a pair of pants, ( lies! I have yet to sew the button at the waist..) that I cut out something like 3 months ago. Pants that took me all of about 2 hours to sew up. The 2 hours includes kittie petting breaks. I managed to order about 15 new Hot Patterns, which I highly recommend. Very cute, very sassy. And they have the back crotch seam that curves quite unlike any other I've seen. Guess what? They fit better. Amazing. I've been seeing the same back butt seam curve in every pattern I've ever used and BAM! Hot Patterns comes along and re-invents the wheel. Did I mention how highly I recommmend them? This would probably mean more if someone was actually reading this, and could go and order some patterns and stuff. The other really, truly great thing about them is that they have the patterns in 3 size ranges. Slinky Girl, Glamour Girl and Curvy Girl. The different ranges are designed to accomodate different bust sizes. Thank god! Did you know that almost all pattern/clothing manufacturers design EVERYTHING for a B cup? I don't think I was ever a B. Oh wait, maybe my first bra...in 1979.

Onto the knitting. Am busy like mad with the baby sweater. My cousin Matt and his wife Janet just got a lovely little baby boy through an open adoption. He is adorable. He is getting a little cotton cardigan. Seed stitch. Buttons up the front and a hood. A darker sort of periwinkle/biue kind of colour. I also have to knit a little girl sweater. The owners of the pet store I frequent had her just about 2 weeks ago. And then there is the sweater I am knitting for myself. It is pink, Shine Worsted from Knitpicks. It is my very first venture into the wide, wide world of cables. It is a pattern I ripped out of Interweave Knits. I actually did swatches for it and all of that good junk. My mom pointed out that relatively new fondness for swatching is probably all due to reading all of Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's books. I think she is onto something with that. Both Stepanie and my mom that is. Anyways, the sweater is looking very promising, well, okay, the back of it is looking very promising. The front is only about an inch long at this point.