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aprons amass

To paraphrase a satisfied buyer on amazon who bought a used book from my husband...It was as if a rocket ship took the aprons from Monica and rocketed them to my house. She already sent me three beautiful aprons, one of them delicously frilly and retro looking. Thank you, sugar roux!

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After spending some time thinking through all our volunteer roles for the night of the Cafe au Play auction we find that we need just 30 aprons (not 40). Well that's easier! In fact, when you look at it with this fresh perspective - and with all the wonderful people who've signed up and pledged to make aprons all tallied and figured in - we are at 70% of our apron goal!

We need only 9 more - a very doable number for me and my sweatshop laborers close friends to pick up the slack on if I don't get any more online offers. Then all our day-of-event volunteers at the Novebmer 4 auction will be wearing handmade aprons that are up for bidding on, with a goal of making at least $1000 from aprons alone.

In answer to some basic questions, you can use any pattern you like but we are hoping for a majority of the aprons to be waist-down models to leave room for volunteers' name tags. Long or short, etc., are all open to interpretation, and we have men as well as women who need to be beaproned.

I just sent out an email to everyone who pledged to make an apron and for whom I have an email address. If you did not get it, please contact me at dumbmail @ larissabrown . net with your email address, so I can send you the details.

in which i try to write about knitting and not the auction

This is some pretty pretty  Blue Moon Fiber Arts (need I link?) Twisted yarn. I'm not sure of the colorway (Kaci said it might be Fire on the Mountain?) but it's definitely an elegant version of pony puke. So I'm knitting it into a little-girl shawl, maybe for a 4-foot tall girl. Maybe to give to the Cafe au Play auction, which you may have noticed I'm pretty much living and breathing these days.

[Aside: We are at 71% of the needed aprons! Our total goal has been adjusted to 30, and we have 18 pledged! Three are already in my hands from sugar roux! More on aprons in my next post.]

Back to the candy cape. I am using the petal shawl pattern from elann, and I'm just about at the point where I'm going to figure out how to do the ending repeat. The Twisted yarn is looking gorgeous and as usual Tina and crew have chosen a yarn that is very high quality and feels delicious on the needles.

And they are most generous. Every time I see Tina she wants to give me more yarn. I love that about her! She just adores her yarn and wants everyone to have some and I imagine half the job of working for her is to make sure she doesn't give it all away. So last time I saw her she gave me a skein of Periwinkle in an incredible new colorway for fall called Rooster Rock, to use to make an artist's scarf for the auction.

So it is, in fact, all about the auction. Sigh. Volunteering is fun, but I can't wait until it's over and my creative energy goes back to being invested in my book.