New mail, yay! I worked from home today and finally, finally got my Amazon shipment. Since moving to the big H, we always get boxes one day after the USPS (or UPS) website says that they’ve been delivered. Maybe our mailman likes to peruse knitting books?

I have picked up One Skein many a time to check it out, and I finally purchased it. There is some super cute baby stuff in there (the petal bib, so cute!), and you can’t go wrong with using up oddballs of yarn. The Knitting Nature book I picked up pretty much unseen, just based off of random photos off the web. There’s some good stuff in here, beautiful motifs and really clever construction. However, I don’t think that there is one pattern that I would knit as-is – many of the sweaters have a gradual bell-shape to them that isn’t really flattering in any way.

A couple of my warm-weather faves (there’s some great wooly stuff in the book, too) – the Basalt Tank and Roundabout Leaf Tank. I’d like both to have straight hems on the bottom. I’d also like to add waist shaping to both, which involves clever moves to get around the clever construction. I have some ideas along those lines…

Also, I heart these mittens with gigantic, arrow-pierced hearts. And the Triforce! Save Zelda!