1 Across : Preposterous puzzling pouch

Yes folks, it's the Crazy Crossword Bag!

Here's the side with the British-style crossword on it (lots of black squares, and a high percentage of unkeyed letters - white squares that are only in one word). Handles courtesy of Tall Poppy Crafts.


And the side with the American-style crossword (relatively low % of black squares, highly keyed (ie white squares crossing over both an Across word and a Down word).

The inside - with a pocket on one side, and a strip of black elastic which holds pens / sunglasses etc on the other :


My next challenge is to write up the pattern for the bag - I'll let you know when it's ready!

And some weeks ago Bells gave me this very beautiful sock yarn (she ordered it from Blue Moon Fibre Arts when Rose Red placed an order. Bells couldn't let her have all the fun!) - my first ever skein of Socks That Rock, Corvid colour - practically black, only it's also purple and green. Very very cool.

And the winners are...

From the OMFG I'm in Vogue Knitting Blog Comp of last week, the ten winners (courtesy of little scraps of paper with all your names on them in a plastic shopping bag, shaken all about) are, without further ado :

Georgie
KMS
Susan Pandorf
Bearly Knitting
Sometimes Unwilling Guru
PennyD
Kuka
Ilikecraft
Casp
Rhonrhon

Hurrah! Please e-mail me your postal address (unless I already know it, Georgie and PennyD from Vienna)! If I'm going to see you soon at a Canberra SnB, we can do stuff in person. (And never fear, I never ever use personal details in any way apart from to send you pressies.)

Damn, it's hard to leave 26 of you out :( I wish I could have given ALL of you a prize - but I will do this again.

We have a jumper

Ladies and Gentlemen, I have an announcement : the Sherwood jumper is in London, I repeat, the jumper is in London. It is being worn by 2-year-old nephew Ben. He is cute, I repeat, he is cute. The jumper fits.





Thank you for your attention ;)