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hi friends,

i've been a bit knocked out of whack lately, due to near-constant headaches with a dash of migraine thrown in for good luck. so the knitting - like pretty much everything else here - has slowed down to a halt while we try to figure out what's up. but.


a dear friend has hit her third trimester and the shower is next weekend. fingers crossed i can get a cute little something knit up in time!


hopefully i'll be back with FO photos next week!

the fuzzier side of things

have i mentioned how blessed i am to have friends like beigeberry and malaraky? we've known each other for half our lives and the farther apart we move, the more i miss them.


i mean, who else would send me 8 oz of glorious alpaca? this is the bounty beigeberry bequeathed upon me during our yarn swap. we all decided we had way too much of one color or another in our stashes, and wouldn't it be nice to switch things up? malaraky pulled together a little questionnaire to help us decide what to send each other. i think i seriously scored here. YUM! what to knit, what to knit? ideas graciously accepted.

in the meantime, i'm continuing along on my acer cardigan [ravelry link]. it was a good airplane knitting project - the pattern's simple enough to memorize - and i'm hoping to get to the sleeves soon. is it bad that sometimes i'm just itching for some simple stockinette?


maeve the cat wishes you happy knitting, friends!

horses and llamas and peacocks, oh my!

by now you probably all know a little something about my love for all the creatures of this good earth. i am, hands down, an "animal person" and i'm not ashamed to say it. so when a colleague told me about the gentle barn, i kinda had to go.

the gentle barn is a non-profit farm animal sanctuary in santa clarita, california. they rescue abused animals and provide them with a forever home on their beautiful farm. and they have "open hours" on sundays, where visitors can come and pet the more socialized of the bunch!


(i fell in love with this horse, zoe... she just wanted to snuggle!)




llamas for nicole!






if you're in the socal area, i highly recommend checking this place out!

snown

hey everyone! i figured what better way to start 2012 off on the right foot than to release a new free pattern? i was wracking my brain to figure out how to use that super-colorful lorna's laces that i dyed in a workshop at VK Live... and this is where i landed:

a neckwarmer and earwarmer set to brighten up the chilly and overcast days of winter, snown beautifully showcases hand-dyed and variegated yarns with a modern twist.




you can find it right here or on the sidebar to the right. ravelry page here. enjoy!

<3, marri

(p.s. - thanks for all of the sweet words about the wedding photos!)

c'est la vie 2011!

i'm not gonna to lie - it was a crazy year here at casa subliminalrabbit - noted by my absence from the internet! but it was all worth it...




...because i'm now legally entwined to my best friend and love of my life. (this is the part where you all go "aww!")

i figured i'd wrap up 2011 with a long-overdue post about the wedding!

bryan and i approached the whole thing a little differently, i think, than most. we're not particularly sentimental folk, but we do like a party. so why not throw a huge party and invite all of our friends and family to celebrate the moment with us?

we asked our sisters to perform the ceremony...




... and then got right to the party part!

we had a diorama station...


... and balloon animals.




a photo booth...






... and of course wonderful time spent with those we love most!




i tried not to get too crazy with the planning and prep. we did hire an invitation designer, whose beautiful work we ended up using for all of our signage as well, and a couple of amazing coordinators to help out with the last hurrah. i made two special pieces for the ceremony, but that was pretty much it -




all in all it was an amazing experience, and totally worth the dough. when else do you get to have everyone who loves you in one place, all there for you?


so good-bye 2011, and here's to an amazing 2012!

(more photos here for anyone really interested.)

why hello!

I really do realize that I've been awfully neglectful. Life is just off and running and it's all I can do sometimes to keep up. Six months have passed, and I still haven't written about the wedding or honeymoon. Would you guys be interested in a little trip down (recent) memory lane with me?

In the meantime, there has been knitting. Remember this?

it's now this:


someone asked me the other day if i got it at anthropologie. bless her.

oh, and remember that lovely lorna's laces I dyed at vogue knitting live?




i decided I needed a winter headband for our holiday in ohio next weekend, and played around with my hand-dyed yarn and some scraps left over from a sweater. speaking of which...




say hello to bedford! knit up in luscious drops nepal (my first experience with drops yarn - and i'm in love!), bedford is a comfy, oversized raglan pullover designed by michelle wang as part of a collection to support jared flood's new yarn line, shelter. beigeberry called my and malaraky's attention to the collection, and we decided it was time for another knit-along. i added a couple of inches to the length, but otherwise knit as directed. this sweater is so cozy, i know i'll be wearing it all winter.

and baby, it's cold out there - even here in socal!

bella's mittens - downloading

just popping in to answer a few questions about downloading bella's mittens that have popped up lately in the comments here and on ravelry.

yes, the link still works.

i've tested it on multiple computers. my guess is that a few of you nice folk might be using (*shudder*) internet explorer which might require you to do something funky because it's created by microsoft and therefore not intuitive. (*ducking as microsoft die-hards throw things at me.*) please do yourself a favor and go download firefox.* you can thank me later.

now just click on the link on the sidebar. or here. it should automatically download.

if you're still having difficulties, please feel free to email me at info[at]subliminalrabbit[dot]com. i'm happy to email you the pattern when i have a moment.

happy knitting!



*so apparently there are some issues for you google chrome users too! apologies - not sure why it's not reading the code...