picassos are weird

This is what I found on the floor this afternoon, a carefully arranged handiwork of Picasso’s.  What does it mean? Is it a signal?  Is there a significance to how close the two mousies are, how they are parallel and facing the same direction?

Or is this a further sign of Picasso’s…. strangeness?

November magknits

Don’t mind us.  We talked, we laughed, we plotted, and then we forgot to post our review.  Hey, at least I didn’t forget my blog password! Tee hee hee.  Hopefully you’ll enjoy this, all the same!

(blog minion: I sneaked in some comments after these two did their review, tee hee!  evil cackle)

COCO

Tiphanie: If I ever knit this and paraded this around in this city, I’m going to be laughed out and mocked.  Then stores will refuse to extend me store credit.
Frarochvia:  I like the cable pattern and would like to knit it for…I don’t know, maybe an afghan square, maybe a scarf.  But the purse itself, no.
Tiphanie:  I hate this purse.   It looks like a big grape zit. It looks like a raisin.  A little square raisin.  A wrinkly raisin purse.  I don’t even like Chanel purses.
Frarochvia:  The chain.  Interesting stabilizing method, tho.  I like the cabling.
Tiphanie:  I don’t like metal chains.
Frarochvia:  Me too.  But if you MUST make a silk purse…
Tiphanie:  It’s fine when you want to pretend that it’s a REAL Chanel.  I don’t get the needlepoint canvas.  It would get dirty fast.  I mean, if she wanted a Chanel purse, why not purchase a Chanel scarf and then line the purse with it?
Frarochvia:  I guess I don’t get the point of uh, homemade faux-label.

STARLIGHT EVENING GLOVES

Frarochvia:   Ah yes.  The starlight.  Not even wool.  That part puzzles me.
Tiphanie:  Not crazy about the gloves.   Saggy elbows.  I love eyelet patterns- cute.  But…
Frarochvia:  Me too.  Plus I think it’d be better without the “seam.” The eyelets are great.
Tiphanie:  If I want to make fancy sexy gloves, why not start with a fancy pattern.  I would even consider making an FnF gloves – and with delicate yarns.  They would look sexy.   With scalloped edges.
Frarochvia:  These are knit at sock gauge.
Tiphanie:  So it’s like wearing a sock on your hand.
Frarochvia:  Pair of GLOVES at sock gauge.
Tiphanie:  I’m fine with fingers and with the hand part.  I doubt that anyone would want to work out fancy lace patterns for hands and fingers.  But for elbows/upper arm sure.
Frarochvia:  It’s not sexy, no.
Tiphanie:  What’s the purpose?   Warm gloves?  Sexy gloves?  It looks more like a pair of warm gloves.   I would prefer to go with a fancy wrap.
Frarochvia:  Whoa, do you see the ribbing at the very cuff of the gloves.
Tiphanie:  Yep. That’s the problem.  See?  That’s why I was thinking of FnF.   With scalloped edging.
Frarochvia:  Or with picot edging.   Picot would be very appropriate. Period-appropriate.   I had antique gloves as a wee bairn with picot edging.
Tiphanie:  Looks like a pair of legwarmers with fingers.  I can live with eyelet stitch legwarmers.
Frarochvia:  I want a pair of sexy gloves but not in cotton.

BLUEBERRY PIE

Frarochvia:   It’s just wrong on many levels.
Tiphanie:  I can accept it as a cute pillow.  A cute throw pillow but a pin cushion?   How big is this?  And do you want to do cabling with tiny needles for this?  It looks unbaked.
Frarochvia:  4×4x4.   It’s cute. Uh, yeah.  It’s cute.  I don’t get it.  It’s cute on the level of…oh wow.
Tiphanie:  I keep on thinking.  Do I want to display this?  With sharp dpns sticking out? (blog minion: Not if you have any children or pets running around!)
Frarochvia:  Gah.  I don’t even want to receive it.
Tiphanie:  Yeah.  You would have given it to Picasso to destroy.
Frarochvia:  I would have.  I do admit as such. (blog minion: after removing the sharp dpns for your own future usage, right??? And his safety???)
Tiphanie:  I can live with this if it’s a sofa pillow.
Frarochvia:  I don’t want an effing blueberry pie pillow.
Tiphanie:  Or may be if it’s a tea cozy.
Frarochvia:  You are strange.   If it was a pie as a tea cozy that’d actually sorta of be cute.  I can’t see myself knitting a whimsy for no reason.

PEEPS

Frarochvia:  I love the peeps socks.  The slip stitches work with the striping well I think.
Tiphanie:   Cute slip stitches but um.  I’m actually shocked that I don’t like the colorway.
Frarochvia:  *gasp*
Tiphanie:  And that is a shock- because I’m the one who said that I would wear anything on my feet.
Frarochvia:  Yes. You are.  Are you Tiphanie?
Tiphanie: [answers some secret questions before Frarochvia's satisfied
that it's actually Tiphanie and not an alien]
Frarochvia:  I think if I did a toe-up sock and it was striping, like my first Koigu pair, I’d like to try this slip pattern.

ROSSNYEV CARDIGAN

Tiphanie:  On me, it would just fall off.   Sloping shoulders.
Frarochvia:  Wait, this is made of sock yarn too.  It would fall off of mine too.  We can modify it to make it more of a v-neck.   Yeah. Look at the back of the sweater.  You totally could make the front panels wider to make it more v-neck.
Tiphanie:  I don’t like the clasp.  It’s a clasp or a hook?  Looks like hook and eye?  It looks more like a sweater for a dancer.
Frarochvia:  WTF is it with hook and eye closure love? PEOPLE!  THAT
STUFF NEVER STAYS ON! (blog minion: maybe they don’t want it to STAY on…)
Tiphanie:  I could wear it but I would need to buy a strapless bra.
Frarochvia:  Why bother, cuz your sweater would just be hanging off of the strapless bra.
Tiphanie:  There’s another detailing that kinda bother me.  See the second picture?  It looks like a braided detailing on the neckline which I like.  I know that it’s not braided but it looks braided.  I think it’s cool.  But see the back? There’s no detailing.
Frarochvia:  There’s nothing.   I know.  I immediately noticed that.

FAKE ISLE HAT

Tiphanie:  By now you probably knitted three of them, hmm?
Frarochvia:  Hate the name with a big white hot passion. Love the hat. I haven’t yet.  CAN YOU BELIEVE IT.
Tiphanie:  I like the fake Fair Isle.  Not exactly novel but really cool-  inspiration.  Enough to make me go hmm.  Now I need more Noro Kureyon.   I don’t have any more.
Frarochvia:  It’s not fake,  that annoys me.  But yes, I like it. I have some Noro Kureyon but finding a contrast 220 would be the interesting part.

KLISA

Tiphanie:  It’s cute.  Not my thing.  It would look horrible on me. Boobs, Boobs, and boobs.  And did I say boobs?
Frarochvia:  We would just look saggy if we weren’t hanging out of it already.
Tiphanie:  Sad looking sack.   Not sexy.   What I think is cool is that she designed it.  It’s perfect for teenagers.
Frarochvia:  It’s great for her, for tiny tiny teenagers.
Tiphanie: Not for me. With my matronly figure.
Frarochvia:  We are not so much with the tiny or the teen. Reubenseque.   It is not a crime.  But this sweater, for us, yes..   We would just be MADE to look saggy even if we had uh, the world’s most spectacular chest.
Frarochvia:  Okay.  Next!  No more going ahhh. Not tiny.  We are spectacular, mmkay.

UNISCARFITY

Tiphanie:  I love the scarf idea but um I don’t get it.  It’s a stitch pattern.
Frarochvia:  Half of me thinks it’s great.  Half of me is like, uh, IT’S A PATTERN?
Tiphanie:  You can find the pattern in one Walker treasury.  I’m sure that you can find the honeycomb brioche stitch in any stitch dictionary.  Walker.  Vogue. Whatever.  I doubt that anyone invented a new stitch lately.
Frarochvia:  No, I’m not gonna worry about invented stitches.   Yeah, I don’t get the pattern thing.  But I –am- glad to be introduced to the pattern, even if that’s contradictory.