ELECTRIC fetus

My husband is a vinyl guy, he collects (hoards) & prefers to listen to music on LP. Needless to say we hit A LOT of record shops!

The Electric Fetus is an indie record shop in Minneapolis, Lex & I never mind tagging along to this shop.

Mostly because in addition to piles & piles of records for Jason to look through, they have aisles & aisles of crazy quirky items for us to look through.

On this trip Jason left with Booker T. & the MG’s and the newest Brass Messengers, Lex & I left with a lunchbox, stickers & several adorable to us pinbacks. OH yeah, and a box of pickle shaped Band-Aids!

This place has really excellent ceilings too!

We haven’t been to the new Hymie’s Records location on Lake, but we really loved the old musty/dusty Hymies, digging for treasure!

busy testing

I’ve been having a lot of fun lately doing a little pattern testing for a few fellow designers. (I think I like the distraction from the guilt I feel when I haven’t designed something in a while ..I wish I wasn’t so self-making lazy!)

It’s averaging 90º, but I couldn’t resist the texture of the Curling Leaves Candlewick Shawl. Made in anticipation of our blustery subzero winters & drafty old house, I was longing for an over the top, smooshy, heavy ruffled wrap to nestle into. Made with recycled yarn in a dirty butter color. This lovingly became known as my Golden Fleece aka Big Bird.
 

 BOW TIES ARE COOL. I couldn’t help adding a little DOCTOR to the collar of this smart little baby sweater, made from the Little Diamonds Jumper/Tank Top pattern.  

I don’t know what it is with me and baby bibs, but I can’t seem to get enough of them (perfectly useful gift and little baby fashion statement all in one!) This beautifully simple chevron bib was made soft and absorbent with a lovely linen & c

Pattern: Bandana Bib.

Gosh this hat is just so syrupy sweet & ridiculously cute! I made the grownup size in a natural tweed yarn for Lex, because you know, most 17 year olds want big adorable barn owls perched on their heads! Wonderful baby to adult size pattern, Hooty Owl Hat.

Dog Days

His name is plain old Gram, but his full name (that gets added to constantly) is Gramulus Romulus Barkus Flatus Frankfurter Punxsutawney Twiglet.

He’s mostly a good boy, but sometimes he’s a total jerk.

He’s a shortie, a little big guy at 90 lbs (long & low).

He tots & pops around like an excited pink belly pig hippo & his hind chops have little feathered hair wings!

We lovingly call him gram-dog or gram-chop or gram-paw or gram-bo and sometimes our bubsy.

He likes carrots :)