Rebecca Danger

Que Magnífico

Guess what! The very lovely Luciana from Argentina has translated the Bunny Nuggets pattern into Spanish! Wohoo! To see the translated version visit Luciana's blog: http://queestastramando.blogspot.com/2009/04/bunny-nuggets.html

I took quite a bit of Spanish in High School and ended up in the AP class where we spoke only Spanish so it is very cool for me to check out her blog and see Bunny Nuggets in another language. Even if you don't speak Spanish you should click on over and check out the cute carrots she knit for her nuggets!

Learning To Knit With A Puggle On My Arm

We had a little company earlier this week at the Danger pad. If you are not into gratuitous pug (and puggle) pictures, you might want to stop reading now....

This is Roxy, my mom's dog:

As I mentioned earlier my Grandma's birthday was last friday and my aunt came up from California to celebrate. So of course, since it is the perfect time of year for the Tulip festivals down in Mount Vernon (about 30 min south of us) there was a little sightseeing trip down to the tulip and daffodil fields this week. I offered to take Roxy since I am always up for more dogs in the house. She is a Puggle (part pug, part beagle) and I figured both she and our girls could use a play date to wear off some energy. There was some playing:

But not as much as I thought there would be. Instead there was a lot of napping, and all Roxy really wanted was to snuggle next to me:

Since I am a dog sucker and will do anything to appease a pushy canine, I can now add knitting with a Puggle on my arm to my list of talents. That comes right after knitting with a pug on my lap, knitting with a pug biting my knitting needles, and using an industrial sewing machine with a pug on my lap. Talk about talent.....

Meet Penelope!

Woohoo! Right on time (it was much closer than I expected), meet my newest knitting pattern:

It's Penelope! I LOVE her so much.....when I got the first couple finished Mr. Danger sat and hugged one for about an hour. I think Penelope is his favorite so far!

Penelope has a big huggy body, and cute feet, and darling ears, and look at that eye patch!

She is available for sale in my etsy shop now, and I am off to upload pics to flickr and make her available for sale on Ravelry now.

Plus, I added an all 8 pattern deal to the shop and an all 5 monster pattern deal today. Go get your monster knit on!

I'm Trying To Contain My Excitement!

Guess what.... I've become a knitting somebody! Angela over at Knitluck asked me to do a guest post on her blog with some of my favorite links. How cool is that? I am literally squirming in my chair I am so excited to have been asked to be a guest blogger!

So, the post is up, go read it now!

Sorry for the lack of posts here over the weekend, how about a quick Danger Update?

Friday was my Grandma's 96th birthday so I have been out at celebrations and visiting with relatives over the weekend (hence the lack of posts).

I learned the internet term, irl (in real life). I am confused if there is one like oti (on the internet)?

I met an irl friend at Starbucks for knitting on Sunday morning and we knit for almost 3 hours without once looking at the clock.  We called it "church" since knitting and coffee are two of the things we worship most. It was a hoot.

My next knitting pattern is about 90% finished and I will be putting it up for sale this Thursday (4/23).

Our neighbors got two more goats yesterday(one who is a tiny baby, pictures soon I promise!) and the adult goat is sort of cranky from being in a new place. She head butted Abbey the pug this morning and I don't think Abbey likes goats anymore.

Those are the highlights! More picture posts to follow this week, I have blog ideas coming out my ears!

Happy Tax Day!

Hope everyone has gotten their returns in on time! For the first time ever we had to file an extension and will be getting our return in next week.

It was a great day here in the Danger household:

There was some knitting and movie watching (Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn, highly recommend).

Some synchronized sunbathing and a little bit of cell phone ring changing (my ring is now Walk the Line by Johnny Cash and my email ring is now Strongbad singing "the email, the email, what, what, the email.")

A little bit of shipping (look at the cute custom stamp I ordered from JLMould.etsy.com, love it!) and a lot of cursing at the Post Office parking lot.

And a little bit of stuffing and yarn shopping balanced out by a little costcoing.

Hope everyone else has been having as fabulous a week as I have!

The Best Part Of The Danger Pad

So I know I said I would post pictures of the new digs like 3 weeks ago or so, but I am just now getting there. I thought I would start with the best part:

Sure, it may look like an ordinary hall closet. But inside, inside is a magical place:

It's my shoe closet! That's right, we had enough extra closet space in the new house that I get a closet devoted entirely to my shoes. How cool is that?! And the best part? The best part is there is an empty shelf up top that will fit up to 8 more pairs of shoes, AND there is space above that for another shelf! Am I the luckiest girl in the world? I just think I might be.

Meet Olivia

I've put in lots of work this week and I am proud to announce my newest pattern is now available for sale! Meet Olivia:

I am just loving the monsters right now! And that tu-tu, bah! I hope you all like her as much as I do! With the first 6 patterns and bunny nuggets Olivia marks pattern number 8 for me since february. Phew, that is a lot knitting!

Olivia is available in my etsy shop, as well as on ravelry. I already have pics up on flickr if you want to check that out and I will be getting Olivia and Chester into my artfire shop this afternoon. Alrighty, off for more knitting (and sewing, and yarn ordering, and pug wrangling, and tea drinking, and post officing....)

Personal Knitting Lust

So, I knit a lot. And by a lot, I mean A LOT. I think we have this established, but I just want to be sure we all realize this. The only thing is the ton of knitting I do has been devoted recently to pattern writing (the only way I have been able to put out 6 patterns and one free pattern in two months). Think about it, all of those patterns have 4 samples, except bunny nuggets which has 5, 4 times 6 patterns plus 5= a whole lot of knitting. You get the idea? Of course you do, you're very smart. I mean, you are reading my blog after all.

Anyway, this whole lot 'o knitting puts me on the internet looking at other knitting blogs, and ravelry and finding tons of things that I would really like to make for myself. However, this leaves me with the problem of time. So, I have come up with a couple solutions, either a) learning to knit in my sleep or b) having a second set of arms transplanted on. The second set of arms may be a little weird at first, but after awhile I think they may become a trend with other knitters.

So, what has me wanting to put another pair of arms on my body you ask? First of all this which I found thanks to Shannon at luvinthemommyhood.com:

  
Pictures courtesy of Berroco.com

The Juliana Wrap Sweater free from Berroco. LOVE this, love that it is a "sweater" but really just a long wrap. Less shaping, less commitment, easier knitting, I'm all over it. Although, now that I've written all that it will probably turn out to be a nightmare to knit......

Picture courtesy of the Needled Blog

Bah! Owls! I feel like I am a little late jumping on the bandwagon with this one but have you seen the Owls Sweater from Needled? Love it! And have you searched the finished ones on Ravelry? Completely inspiring. You can get this one as a free ravelry download or get an email copy at the Needled blog.

Photo courtesy of the InvolvingTheSenses blog

And last but not least the Shalom Cardigan by Megan McFarlane. Summer is coming up here, I think a short sleeve sweater might be just the thing! LOVE that collar, isn't it fabulous? You can get the pattern for free on involvingthesenses.blogspot.com.

Wow! I don't know about you but after putting these all up here I want to get started on at least one of them even more! The chosen pattern to start on is the Juliana wrap. I will be ordering the yarn for it today and devoting my weekly knit night time to completing it. We'll see how it goes.

Housework: Danger Style

Today was cleaning day here and we figured out that Mr. Danger's shoes are big enough to use as a Gort (our Roomba) barrier:

It of course worked like a charm and Gort ran right around and cleaned up while I knitted. Love the robot vacuum! Now if only I could find a robot chef I would be set. Lucy likes to keep her eye on Gort as he bumps around, that's her trying to figure him out in the picture.

(For those new blog readers out there you've heard mention of Mr. Danger, myself, and Abbey and Lucy Danger the pugs, but I have neglected to mention the 5th member of our family: Gort, our Roomba. Yes, he is a member of our family, and we talk about him as such. We find his antics cute and endearing, and if he starts beeping, we rush over to kiss his ow-ies.)

Holy Goats!

So as I was getting out of the shower on Sunday I looked out the window and spotted what sure enough turned out to be goats in our yard. I probably haven't mentioned that we have a goat pen in our yard before since we have no goats and there were no goats in the pen. However, our new neighbors had mentioned getting goats and they got right on the ball and got some! Meet Jack and Jill:

Pretty cool, huh?! And the pugs are totally nuts about them! I had to take some pictures to share because this might actually be better than the pugs in the snow.....

This is Abbey jumping and barking at Jack, trying to get his attention. The goats actually think the pugs are pretty great too, and Jack likes to paw the ground and try and butt Abbey through the fence. If you can see in this picture he is bowing his head down and starting to butt. It is so, so funny.

This is Abbey going crazy and barking at Jack since she can't seem to get him over to the fence. Look at those crazy eyes!

And this is Abbey finally settling down and just watching. Jill over in the background is not quite as excited about the pugs but she does occasionally come and check them out. Jack, however really likes them and he perks up and starts coming over to the fence as soon as we come out our deck (which is straight across from the goat pen).

Lucy likes the goats too, but she is much more cautious with them and would prefer to chase the new neighbors (two of whom are 8 years old and 5 years old and a whole lot of fun for a pug who thinks she is still a puppy to chase).

Too fun! The goats make our normal going outside routine in the morning a heck of a lot more fun!