Back in July, I sadly reported that my lamb tail jacket had been lost in the mail. Three or four months later, INKnitters sent me the proofing copy of the pattern. Was that the theme music to The Twilight Zone I heard? During the months I thought the sweater was missing, the magazine moved buildings and got new editors. The new staff didn’t know it was lost, so they didn’t have any reason to let me know they had it.
The pattern appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of INKnitters. Here is my daughter, modeling the jacket. Her little sister couldn’t stand being left out. They’re sitting on our propane tank, with an old dairy barn and some pecan trees in the background.
I showed some of my handmade polymer clay buttons in my last post. Here’s a link to instructions for buttons [the link no longer takes you to the buttons, unfortunately] I designed for Crafts Beautiful magazine. It’s truly a beautiful magazine, published in England. Now, if you go to the site, take note of the design in the masthead. I publish it here, in case you miss it. It’s a clock I designed and made from polymer clay. It’s a fairly easy mosaic technique. [This is so old, they’ve changed the masthead—thank goodness we have it here!