“When am I going to be in your blog again?” my boyfriend asked me.

“If you do something cute,” I said.

“Okay.”

“You could buy me yarn,” I suggested. “That might help.”

The sewing-up of the knitted kitty is still on hold because I realized I’d been sorely neglecting my Live Simply cross stitch, so I’m trying to work some more on that right now.

I have to finish the seemingly endless field of blues, one solid blue and two different blends, and when that’s done (which may take forever), I’ll be ready for the backstitching.

Recently, I bought the spring issue of Simply Knitting, mainly because the free gift included with it was this totally adorable small knitting project bag. It’s white with a pattern of balls of yarn in various colours printed all over it, and it’s got the Simply Knitting logo on it in a number of places. It zips up, and it’s got a handle at the top.

Although the handle on mine appears to be at the bottom, because the pattern printed on my bag is upside down.

It looks STUPID.

(If you’re wondering what this bag can fit in it, for this picture, I put six small balls of yarn inside — two are Patons Kroy and the other four are about the same size — and there’s still room for other stuff.)

Of course I didn’t realize it was upside down until I got home, because the knitting bag was all folded up and wrapped in plastic and then it and the magazine were wrapped together in another layer of plastic.

You would never be able to tell from the state of this blog, or from the state of my knitting and cross stitching projects, but I am an obsessive-compulsive perfectionist. I can’t stand that the little balls of yarn are printed upside down. It makes me want to set people things on fire. (Don’t worry, though, I won’t really.) Despite the ridiculous expense, I would have bought the other copy of the magazine that was at the newsstand, except that when I went back two days later, it was gone. I might have bought another copy of the spring issue from the Simply Knitting site, except it’s sold out already.

I am wondering if out of all the people who bought this issue of the magazine, I am the only one with the rotten luck to have an upside down bag. I am trying to tell myself that the upside down bag is Special and that I am Lucky to have a Special bag. I am trying to forget that it actually looks STUPID.

Oh, I almost forgot — last week, or the week before, or something, I spotted KJ in the wild, at her job at Michaels, wearing her red apron. Additionally, Ria has spotted me in the wild a couple of times, at my job at the bookstore, wearing my black vest.

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