*the blog minion is back!!! Yay!!! with a few posts to do! Some may be backdated… for meaningfulness… * 
CENTER SQUARE
Tiphanie: Eh. It’s okay. I don’t like the hat.
Frarochvia: I like the bottom motifs.
Tiphanie: I know you do. You got a thing for circles and it’s even pink. Circles and pink!
Frarochvia: I would do it in a bag maybe.
Tiphanie: You’re obsessed with bags. Knit a damn sweater for a change!
Frarochvia: Yes ma’am! The top of it has room for improvement. But I like the basic idea.
Tiphanie: It’s really easy- to do Fair Isle. You can even do circles. You used to whine about how you wanted to knit circles so you had to take up crocheting. Circles!
Frarochvia: Circles in stand alone shapes, silly girl. But mmmm circles.
CALORIMETRY
Tiphanie: Calorimetry- maybe. I may try one for myself.
Frarochvia: I hate Calorimetry. I don’t see the point.
Tiphanie: You got short hair that’s why. If you put your hair up in a bun, or in a ponytail, it’s hard to find a hat to keep your head warm. I like buns and French twists. You don’t do ponytails.
Frarochvia: You look good in them unlike me.
Tiphanie: Yep. You hate it because you don’t see the point. Me, I’ll try one.
Frarochvia: Your hair is uh, coarser. And that means it holds hairdos better.
Tiphanie: Now you’re fugging my hair.
Frarochvia: I’m not fugging! I’m saying!
Tiphanie: Hehe. I find myself wondering about that button/clasp. I don’t want to wear anything that would catch on my hair. Sometimes I have trouble with sweaters with a button in the back. Even a necklace.
Frarochvia: Why can’t it be a tube?
Tiphanie: Because she wanted to unbutton it without dragging it over her nice hairdo.
Frarochvia: Ah yes.
HEXED
Tiphanie: I don’t like Hexed. It looks like a rhino’s foot. With purple toenails. It’s perfect for Flattop [from Dick Tracy].
Frarochvia: I like the pattern head on but don’t like the hat. If that makes sense.
Tiphanie: If she wanted a hexed hat, why not do hexagons and half hexes?
Frarochvia: Half hexes, good idea. Maybe I’ll try it myself.
ANTIFREEZE
Tiphanie: Just don’t wear it in dangerous areas or you would be shot by a cop. Black- bad idea.
Frarochvia: Hehehehe. The thought passed my mind that it was extremely practical.
Tiphanie: Why not do a pink version. A thief won’t wear a pink ski mask you know.
Frarochvia: Realistically I would prefer a neckwarmer/scarf/hat/uberscarf combination. I wonder about my glasses fogging up. If I were skiing I’d definitely make it. But uh since the odds of that is only slightly less than the odds of me winning the lottery, I might not.
Tiphanie: You should knit it anyway.
Frarochvia: Hmmm.
Tiphanie: If you hate it, you can frog it. Or save it as a gift for a friend who ski.
Frarochvia: Maybe I should. It’s a good cold weather thing. IN PINK DAMMIT. This is one item that really would benefit from pink. Pink with grey trim.
BINARY
Tiphanie: It’s nice for a computer geek but not for me. You got a thing for Matrix. Knit it.
Frarochvia: Letters, not binary.
Tiphanie: So? Just replace numbers with letters.
Frarochvia: Maybe I should see if anyone has a chart for Matrix. If not, maybe *gulp* I should make that a project.
Tiphanie: Buy some chart papers and chart yourself.
ARGOSY
Tiphanie: Argosy I like. Say the word, Noro, and I’m yours.
Frarochvia: I like it a lot.
Tiphanie: I like it but not enough to entice me to knit another scarf. It’s on my list of potential projects but not A MUST KNIT project.
Frarochvia: You’re scarved out? Oh come on, you know you wanna. Noro Silk Garden Lite!
Tiphanie: Maybe. I’m picky about scarf patterns/color choices. I want a scarf to show off its colors. It’s different- something different, Not a simple garter scarf.
Frarochvia: Yes. This is a big winner for me.
CORAZON
Tiphanie: Eh. I’ll pass. Sorry.
Frarochvia: Eunny’s are much better.
Tiphanie: I doubt that I would even want to knit a pair of mittens. If I want to do a pair, I’ll probably go with Eunny’s Amemoi.
Frarochvia: Hers are so unusual I’d enjoy the knit.
Tiphanie: So what makes this pair [Corazon] different from others?
Frarochvia: One other problem is the colors are so washed out. Hard to see the pattern.
TIFFANY
Tiphanie: I don’t like Tiffany.
Frarochvia: I actually like the Fair Isle in the main pattern but the colors are wrong.
Tiphanie: Colors easy to change.
Frarochvia: Maybe for a bag or a hat. Definitely a bag.
Tiphanie: *sigh* You and your bag fetish.
Frarochvia: I would do this whole thing into a bag, flipped around with the thick band on top. I know. I’m sorry I have a fetish. *hangs head* (blog minion: but but… she has a sock fetish TOO!! hehe)
Tiphanie: You’re talking about turning everything into a bag. You may as well as send me all of your lace yarns and your sock yarns.
Frarochvia: Nooooooooooo!
LEGWARMER SOCKS
Tiphanie: Legwarmer socks??
Frarochvia: I did kind of like that. *shrinks from shame* but because then I could have no cold air. I see it as something practical, but then wouldn’t a knee high work just as well? (blog minion: seee seee!!! proves my point, she’s got a sock fetish TOO!!)
Tiphanie: Yeah. Can see you loving them. Socks with free toes.
Frarochvia: Yeah. Because I get hot in bed with encased toes. So it just seems practical, wearing with flip flops against the cold floor.
ROLLING THUNDER
Tiphanie: I wouldn’t mind a pair but not really a priority or a must for me.
Frarochvia: The garter rib is what caught my eye not the motif. Can’t really see the motif. I like this. Not a must, but I like.
MONKEY
Frarochvia: I love the monkey socks. Cookie’s socks are always so great. She did Hedera, Herringbone, Pomatomus, and now this.
Tiphanie: She should charge for her patterns. I would buy her patterns.
Frarochvia: I know! She would be rich. She’s for socks what Bonne Marie is for sweaters and Mim is for shawls.
EIFFEL
Tiphanie: I’m okay with the body but the arms blah.
Frarochvia: I like it without the patterned sleeves. If the sleeves stopped at the ribbons, it’d be a great spring sweater.
Tiphanie: It’s cute I may wear it over a long sleeved tee.
Frarochvia: I’d wear it with a tank top. I have a really nice one that has built in underwire bra. I like the idea of the close fitting slightly long short sleeves.
LAUREN
Tiphanie: Aiee. Lauren’s ugly. Chunky handspun. I don’t like.
Frarochvia: Hate it.
Tiphanie: Why is the back longer than the front?
Frarochvia: Shapeless.
Tiphanie: To hide your underwear? When you sit down with your hip huggers?
Frarochvia: butt flap. Like how shirts are made. I don’t like it.
Tiphanie: Using handspun for trimming, I’m fine with – but this looks terrible.
Frarochvia: I like the idea of fusion.
Tiphanie: A butt flap and a collar? Is it a sailor collar? Or a shawl on your shoulders? I mean, if she’s going to do a butt flap, why not do it on the front? What’s up with that butt flap?
Frarochvia: Because your bum isn’t on the front. I would use handspun on wrists. Or on the collar. But not down the front like that.
Tiphanie: Why the butt flap? You sit on that handspun. To prevent sitting on stinky school seats?
Frarochvia: Or maybe yes down the front, but it’s not the way it should be.
Tiphanie: I hate the wrist slits. And I hate the collar. It’s a HUGE collar. Collar. Butt flap. Slit wrists. Oh this is painful. A big collar that wraps the shoulder. Wide front panels. Split belled cuffs. And a bum flap. Terrible. Terrible.
Frarochvia: I need brain bleach or I *will* slit my wrists.
Tiphanie: This would be a better sweater if she used handspun only for wrists and for the collar. No bum flaps!
EMERALD
Frarochvia: I think the Emerald is a much better idea for what an at-home sweater should look like. I like emerald. I probably would omit the button and knit one size larger.
Tiphanie: I don’t like the huge button but it’s easily remedied. Looks pretty comfy. I probably won’t knit but if I see someone wearing it I will admire it.
Frarochvia: I like it for an at home sweater. Not at the top of my list but I like it.
Tiphanie: What’s even important- it’s butt flap free. What’s the purpose of a butt flap? I want to know why a butt flap exists. I shall research!
Frarochvia: Ask Sally Melville. So many things she makes have butt flaps. Including the asymmetrical stuff that made you claw your eyes
out.
TWINKLETOES
Tiphanie: Cute but um. No way am I going to put them on every night. Laces would cut in my legs. Why not do ribbons?
Frarochvia: Twinkletoes. It would quickly become a cat toy in the Frarochvia household. Hate them.
Tiphanie: Can see doing them for a wee lass. But on me? Nah.
Frarochvia: Ah she added uh, the square thick things on the soles?
Tiphanie: If I needed a last minute gift for a girl, I’ll just run to a bookstore and get a book.
Frarochvia: Can see it for a ballerina wannabe little girl. I’d make it only only if it was greatly wanted. And even then, wouldn’t a store bought with leather soles be safer?
Tiphanie: Probably twenty bucks or so. Used to take ballet classes.
Frarochvia: Used to be a modern dancer. I used to have a pair with leather soles.
SPANISH DANCER
Tiphanie: It’s beautiful. I would do it.
Frarochvia: Yes. I think it’s actually a great use of a variegated yarn.
Tiphanie: Seven skeins of Claudia hand painted yarns. Pricey so I’ll probably go with something else.
Frarochvia: Perfect travel shawl. Memories would be perfect. Stretches? So what. Thin and light but warm.
Tiphanie: 1204 yds total.
Frarochvia: It’s not “lace” but I like it a lot. I got a catalog somewhere lemme check. 7 hanks of memories. $28. Sold!
SLINGSHOT
Tiphanie: it’s cute.
Frarochvia: Slingshot is cute but at the same time I go um wtf.
Tiphanie: you don’t drink coffee while dashing around. I do! And yeow! Useful when you need to carry a lot of stuff. I like it but I may not knit it.
Frarochvia: Wouldn’t it tilt and risk spilling?
Tiphanie: It’s to carry HOT coffee and I would prefer for it to spill on the ground rather than on my hand. You don’t have to get a wad of napkins to hold the cup. (blog minion: I’ve wanted one of these for a long time, well, two, actually. One for holding hot drinks. One for holding VERY cold pints of ice cream. *G* I’d want mine without a strap, because I’d be sitting here or in bed munching/drinking and reading.)
BABE
Tiphanie: I don’t care for hockey so who cares. But I wonder- will the blades cut thru the felted pieces? I suppose that she can knit more.
Frarochvia: I was thinking about the cutting factor.
VENEZIA
Tiphanie: Oh napkin rings. Cute and it’s cover but I think that I may prefer to get Modesitt’s book.
Frarochvia: Venezia is great. But you’ll be doing all the metal knitting.
Tiphanie: Yeah. I wouldn’t mind trying knitting with wire.
BROWN BAG
Frarochvia: I love Brown Bag, just for the quirkiness.
Tiphanie: I would probably throw it out by accident.
Frarochvia: Brown Bag makes me laugh.
Tiphanie: Now that’s what I like about quirky designs. Approved!
Frarochvia: This is what I like too. It’s something you don’t notice on first glance. It’s not trying too hard to be cool.
Tiphanie: Yeah. It’s a clever twist.
Frarochvia: It’s something I hadn’t thought of doing but now I see it? Love it. The button thing is good too.
STARSKY JR.
Tiphanie: It’s cute.
Tiphanie & Frarochvia: [talking about the Starsky Sr. version for the
next 30 minutes]
BLENDED HUES
Frarochvia: It’s cute but I wouldn’t make it. It’s an effect that relies more on the yarn than anything.
Tiphanie: Yeah. You would have to buy actual yarns to recreate this but it’s cute.
Frarochvia: Yeah it is. I just feel it limits creativity. Or rather, you’d really have to swatch a lot for a similarly good result.
PIGGLE
Tiphanie: *giggle* Cute for a little girl.
Frarochvia: It is cute. But I’m not knitting one for you.
NORBERTA
Frarochvia: I love Norberta. It just cracks me up.
Tiphanie: I would knit it! And then keep it for myself!
Frarochvia: Norberta. The name is soo funny. And then the dragon itself.
Tiphanie: Norberta- Harry Potter. Norbert.
Frarochvia: Aaaa! Love.
SHELDON
Frarochvia: Sheldon looks wrongly proportioned. Huge head. Tiny legs. The shell looks smaller.
Tiphanie: Deformed. Chemicals in sea. A poor deformed turtle with no tail. I like the turtle and the removable shell. Is the shell a choking hazard?
Frarochvia: Sheldon The Turtle OMG. I love the angry angry catchen picture.
Tiphanie: I guess that the size of the head depends on the knitter. Overzealous in stuffing the head or not.
Frarochvia: They’re still all deformed.
BOOK OF KNITTY
Tiphanie: Heh. Good way of using up swatches.
Frarochvia: *dies laughing* You were supposed to rant about that one. That was the worst one blech.
Tiphanie: Nah. I like it.
Frarochvia: *shudder*
Tiphanie: Good way of using up swatches! Probably a good way of keeping a baby out of knitter’s stash. And if the baby ruins a project, the knitter can just add the project to the book.
Frarochvia: It still sucks.
