She wanna start all over, want a shiny clean slate.

Alternate lyrical title:  "It takes two to make a thing go right."

The past couple months have been spent with so much yarn occupying the general vicinity of my fingertips that I (forgive me, please) have not allowed them time to strike the keys, so to speak.  I can no longer convince myself that I am the only one who noticed that I kicked off this blog and then basically took an immediate hiatus, as I have now had two lovely friends inquire with a general:  "What gives?"  Well, your polite cries have been heard, my friends.  Thanks for "making a thing go right."  I live to please, so let's ride this recap together, eh?  Get ready to be blogged, knitwear!

So.  Let's "kick this pig", as my friend John always says (Literally, that's all he ever says!  What's with that? j/k) with a myriad of owl mitts.  Yes, that one little instagram photo back in October led to many pairs of knitted owls in all shapes/sizes/colors.  Here are the highlights.  Each a little different, in their own right.  Variety is the spice of life.  Six of one, half a dozen of the other.  *Insert other cliche' remarks here*

Now, there's a mitt of a different color.  (please, save the thanks for my hiatus b/c it saved you from many endless days of my posting "today, I knit this same thing but in THIS color"...I feel your thanks.  I accept them.  We can forgo the formalities.) ;)

Now that you have had your eye-fill of owl mitts, a side note.  I sometimes find it charming to knit yarn off of a "hank", as modeled by my little helper, Ophelia.  Yes, the twisty yarns you see sometimes in fancier yarn shops are called "hanks" of yarn.  Isn't that endearing?  I love it.  Though, this is not a customary practice (you're supposed to use a machine and get the yarn into the traditional "skein" format before you use it), there is something about wearing your yarn as a necklace and having to unwrap it around your head each go-round that I can't resist.  I think it just makes me feel more "at one" with the yarn.  And also the sheep who provided it.  Is that wrong?  Well, if it is, I don't wanna be right.