1. I’m tired, I’m indecisive, I am having second thoughts.
2. Why do I have to wake up and not just sleep in.
3. How does this Twitter thing work, anyway? (Or more importantly, what’s the point of it!?)
4. Every morning, I put my phone in my pocket. 
5. I consider myself lucky because I have parents who will/can support me.
6. One day we’ll see THE WORLD. (Yes, I have a Bucket List!)
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to doing absolutely nothing, tomorrow my plans include class  in the morning(ugh!), but it’s Adobe InDesign(yay!) and Sunday, I want to enjoy a cuppa tea at the inaugural T.E.A. meetup!

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Formerly Crafty Creations by Monica M., I am now relaunching my knitting patterns and jewellery designs as Monnibo Designs.

The idea is that this will encompass all of my creative endeavours, so if I decide to start selling skirts or bags that I sew, they can become part of Monnibo Designs. Please take the time to check out my jewellery designs if you haven’t already — I’m really proud of some of them and they’d make great Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanzaa gifts! *wink wink*

My favourite LYS (and I mean super local) celebrated their 2nd Year Anniversary this weekend. Back in March, my sister gave me a gift certificate to the LYS for my birthday. So, gift certificate in hand, boyfriend in tow, I headed to Three Bags Full on Sunday.

I didn’t really buy three bags full of yarn (unlike some of my Terminal City Yarn Wranglers), but I got three lovely skeins!

That’s my first ever Malabrigo Merino Worsted in Oceanos (*gasp* I know Anne!)
And my favourite – Blue Sky Alpacas 100% Organic Dyed Cotton in Thistle and Orchid.

I can’t wait to make:

Can you guess? Give up? (Don’t cheat by looking at my Rav Progress Bars). Click the links for the Ravelry projects to Calorimetry, Diagonal Lace Scarf, and Anthropologie-Inspired Capelet.

When you (avid knitter and blog-visitor) saw this post title, you were thinking, “Yay! Some honest to goodness knitting content! Finally she has an FO to show off!”

I’m sorry; you are wrong. I merely wrote up a pattern that had been getting a lot of faves on Ravelry. It’s a free download on Ravelry. And I wrote it up wrong back in July (because I knit the facecloth over 8 months ago…) and so I had to message everyone, and yea… it’s been downloaded over 200 times. But it’s up and running now (and it’s correct!)

I designed this suuuuper simple Snowflake Dishcloth. The one I knitted was a little too rectangular for my taste, so I added about 4 rows into the pattern (rows 6 & 7) so the snowflake itself is still symmetrical. Everyone is more than welcome to knit it! Enjoy. [Edit: I think it's still a little too small... I've added some CO stitches as well as a couple more rows.]

CO 37 sts
1 – 3: Knit 3 rows
4: K all
5: [K3] P31 [K3]
6: K all
7: [K3] P31 [K3]
8: K all
9: [K3] P31 [K3]
10: [K3] K15, P1, K15, [K3]
11: [K3] P12, K1, P2, K1, P2, K1, P12, [K3]
12: [K3] K13, P1, K1, P1, K1, P1, K13, [K3]
13: [K3] P14, K3, P14, [K3]
14: [K3] K15, P1, K15, [K3]
15: [K3] P10, K1, P4, K1, P4, K1, P10, [K3]
16: [K3] K11, P1, K3, P1, K3, P1, K11, [K3]
17: [K3] P6, K1, P5, K1, P2, K1, P2, K1, P5, K1, P6, [K3]
18: [K3] K7, P1, K5, P1, K1, P1, K1, P1, K5, P1, K7, [K3]
19: [K3] P8, K1, P5, K3, P5, K1, P8, [K3]
20: [K3] K5, P21, K5, [K3]
21: (same as row 19): [K3] P8, K1, P5, K3, P5, K1, P8, [K3]
22: (same as row 18): [K3] K7, P1, K5, P1, K1, P1, K1, P1, K5, P1, K7, [K3]
23: (same as row 17): [K3] P6, K1, P5, K1, P2, K1, P2, K1, P5, K1, P6, [K3]
24: (same as row 16): [K3] K11, P1, K3, P1, K3, P1, K11, [K3]
25: (same as row 15): [K3] P10, K1, P4, K1, P4, K1, P10, [K3]
26: (same as row 14): [K3] K15, P1, K15, [K3]
27: (same as row 13): [K3] P14, K3, P14, [K3]
28: (same as row 12): [K3] K13, P1, K1, P1, K1, P1, K13, [K3]
29: (same as row 11): [K3] P12, K1, P2, K1, P2, K1, P12, [K3]
30: (same as row 10): [K3] K15, P1, K15, [K3]
31: (same as row 9): [K3] P31 [K3]
32: (same as row 8): K all
33: (same as row 7): [K3] P31 [K3]
34: (same as row 6): K all
35: (same as row 5): [K3] P31 [K3]
36: (same as row 4): K all
37 – 40: K 3 rows.
Bind off