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“Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.” — Werner von Braun

Yesterday I found out about a street festival that happens every year, literally a block away from my house. I’ve been living here for two years now and had no idea. Unbelievable!

I got to thinking about it, and I’m debating whether or not I want to get a table for it. The problem, as I see it, is that I seem to specialize in making blankets, scarves, and toques. That might be a hard sell in June in Toronto. There are a handful of things that might be appropriate that I can make, so I’ve been playing with that today (I’m off work today due to an extremely sore knee. Resting it has helped, but it still hurts a LOT!)

I’ve been experimenting researching different techniques.

Here is today’s result:

Big deal, right? It’s fun fur! No one is making things out of fun fur anymore! (Actually, it’s Bernat Eyelash. I got it on sale when the Zellers near me thought they were closing.)

But wait! Take a look at the back!

It’s a bit tricky to see in the picture (I’m stuck taking pictures of things placed artfully on the floor in front of my chair) but that picture shows the other side of a swatch of crochet-on-the-double with the novelty yarn on one side, and black Bernat Satin on the other.

I’m still working out how to get less of the eyelash yarn to show through to the plain side, but it’s quite a promising start!

And just in case my swap partners are stalking me checking out my blog, here’s a little preview for you:

*snickers*