"I'm a banana."

Since we last met, I decided to learn to double knit. This decision was brought on by strange, overwhelming desire to time travel back to the seventies since artificial fibers can often be found in my stash (as pictured)...actually, I was inspired to acquire this new skill by a brillant pattern created by a Bostonian knitter. Acquiring this pattern was exactly what I hoped would be achieved by joining other Yahoo Stitch and Bitch groups across the nation; I am now entranced by an idea that I could have very easily gone on forever without ever knowing about. So, the pattern is for a double knit crow scarf worked out by Alisdair of fallingblox.com. Check it out! Even if double knitting does not bewitch you, it is still a great chart to apply to any other type of color work. He did not include a how to for the basic technique but I found a couple of good ones from patterns on Knitty - one was a Hat and a blanket. I liked the technique from the hat best, but it is the only one I have tried so far.

Because I tire of useless (or use-yet-to-be-determined) swatches, I stumbled into the fact that I needed to turn the swatch from two stashed yarns into a scarf for a monkey that I am making for my son. I started out toying with the idea of fish (the easiest chart that could be scaled to fit ten stitches from "The Knit Stitch Bible"), but fish on a yellow and goldenrod scarf for a monkey didn't quite make sense, even to me. Then, it hit me: It's bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S! (which I have been humming to myself and have been seranaded with while working on this bit). The monkey scarf is finished after two days of steady knitting, which was really more time than I should have spent on a monkey scarf. In fact, it maybe more time than I have spent straight on the yet unfinished monkey thus far.

Now, for my favorite banana jokes.

Stop me if you have heard this one before...or not...

Knock, Knock?
Who's there?
Banana.
Banana Who?
Knock, Knock?
Who's there?
Banana.
Banana Who?
Knock, Knock?
Who's there?
Banana.
Banana Who?....(carry on like this until you see the absolute point of annoyance reflected in the recipient of the joke)
...Knock, Knock?
Who's there?
Orange.
Orange Who?
Orange you glad I didn't say Banana?
(Then, hysterical laughter should break out.) ;)

And now a hypothetical word from our sponsors -
"I'm a banana."
"My spoon is too big."
"I'm a banana."
"My spoon is too big."
(Just google it; Trust ME! My computer is too slow to figure out the You Tube link.)

Hugs and kisses.