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You too can look like Mermaid Jessica Pearl ! Of course it might get soggy underwater, but it looks very cozy for reading on the couch. It's on sale at Zawful , at half price right now.

The sweater was created by Kate Davies Designs and is available as a digital download on Ravelry, if you want to knit your own..the page says that there have been over 6000 owl sweaters knitted, but I think that is counting sales, not completed sweaters--I bet a lot of them are half-done in a ziplock somewhere. I would know. I spent most of today not doing doll things, but trying to fatten up a virtual spider on a template. the spider ended up looking bloated like Violet Beauregarde on the color map-- but still renders out like one of those slender garden spiders. :p Maybe I need virtual flies.

James Gurney wearing a sweater knitted by Jeanette Gurney (who is on Ravelry). Go check out the post to see a detail of the sweater.

My Mom not only knits hats, scarves and gloves, she could knit a coral reef if she felt so inclined. She took pity on my lack of Caterpillar from the Alice story, and knitted me a Caterpillar (Soom never made a posable caterpillar, and I whined a lot about that.) By coincidence, I was fixing up Tanglewyn the Fairy this morning when the caterpillar box arrived; and Tangle makes a pretty good Alice for a photo op. (The doll that has been Alice here is now sharing a body with someone else and is not ready for her close-up.) I may make him little yarn hands so he can hold a teacup, too! I also spent some time today goofing around with the new Lads body--I haven't wired or sueded him at all, and he holds poses amazingly well...and I found out one reason why: He's got little embedded silicon beads under his chest plate! How cool is that? And yes, I did cheat a little for the one footed pose, but that is because my table is slippery and I was having trouble with his feet skiddi...

Grrl on Den of Angels knits (Sonja, her Onyx-Vesuvia "knits", which is how I figured out that Grrl also knits, and is on Ravelry.) I do not knit, so I find this fascinating, especially as I adore yarn. She sent me a link to yarn.com and while I have no idea what I am looking at, I want it. I suppose I could pet it and occasionally make wigs. Here is a sample page: It's like wearable paint.

"Nudibranchs" (Sea Slugs) Make a great Google Image search. They are lovely, and you get pretty much all sea slugs and no spring break photos or other odd things. It does turn up one or two knitted ones, some from here: http://radulove.blogspot.com/2011/05/knitted-nudibranchs.html That is a fun blog too--go to the Home page and look at the Blanket Octopus. Who knew an octopus could be so pretty? Now you are saying,"Fishcake, why sea slugs?" Hey, underwater animals...pretty...why not? Ok, I am procrastinating painting again.

And the knitter of the sheep: Go to Cat Carlisle's blog for directions; she also made (and has directions for) a couple of versions of Jack Aubrey's uniform (that's her modelling it in 2007), and photos from her visit to the Surprise in San Diego. She is another cool Cat. :D Link: The Crafty Cattery I suspect her later RN uniform is about 10 pounds lighter than the Admiral's --it is about 40 years later, too.