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I hosted a knitting circle this evening with some fellow creative lady friends of mine. I love to cook and made some yummy spinach artichoke dip (thanks Rachel Ray!), but ever so smoothly burnt my arm while pulling the pan out of the oven. It hurt! (duh) Unfortunately, I’m not adequately prepared for any sort of emergency in my apartment… I don’t think I even have band-aids. So, when the ice wasn’t cutting it I remembered hearing something about toothpaste helping burns… or maybe bee stings… but hopefully both. I looked up burn remedies on the internet and voila, my inkling was confirmed. I decided to give it a try and it worked! It immediately started dulling the pain and now it doesn’t hurt at all, although I have a stylish wad of toothpaste spread across my arm. I figured I would share my experience so that you, my friend, can enjoy fast relief when you burn yourself in a not-so-smooth manner. (aka, I’m bored and haven’t posted in a few days)

I made this purse a while ago and finally got it all lined and everything. I didn’t use a pattern, but I based it roughly off the shape of the green and white felted purse I made before. I found some nice dark red denim to line it with. My mom likes it a lot and wants one for Christmas so if I don’t sell it I’ll give this one to her.

After some convincing, Wyatt got me to make this Jayne Hat for him to wear at Dragoncon this year. I love making things for him but couldn’t believe he actually wanted this goofy hat. It turned out to be super easy and fun to make so I’m glad I did! For those of you who don’t know what it is, the tough guy character Jayne, in the Firefly series, got this silly hat from his mother one episode.

I used Heather Hill’s pattern as a guide for my first hat. Using her pattern I got to do my first cable cast on as well as learn how to make my first pom pom. Pretty exciting advances in my world of knitting. (; It’s a great pattern but in the end a hat is a hat no matter how you put it together so I created my own version from that point on. My first change was to double up with worsted Lambs Pride because the shop didn’t have the bulky colors I needed, but I ended up loving that brand of yarn and how the two strands look together.

I got the request to make this Slytherin scarf from my friend Byron earlier in July. It was a nice change from only doing Gryffindor ones! I used Caron Simply Soft which has a nice sheen to it.