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Just heard – via an e-mail from my Grandpa Harter(!) – that my brother and Kara are at the hospital in Fort Wayne. It looks like this baby is finally coming tonight!

Update: He’s here! Isaiah David Howard weighed 7lbs 15oz and was 20″ long, despite being a month premature. (Apparently he’s the biggest preemie EVER.) Congratulations to Anthony and Kara. I’ve gotta get cracking on some more baby stuff!

The Story of Quilts. Mom will like that one.

Oh. My. God. High School Musical: Sing-a-long for the Wii is SO. MUCH. FUN. Especially when you’ve never played it before and you start singing and your guests don’t know the words and they all sneak out while you’re warbling “This Could Be the Start of Something New.”

Ambivalent Sexism Inventory. I scored a .55 on the “hostile,” and a .82 on the “benevolent.” I’ve got a guess why, but I’ll hide it so you can take the quiz unspoiled.I think this is because I answered some of the questions more charitably that they were intended. Like: “Women should be cherished and protected by men.” Of course they should! Just as men should be cherished and protected by women! I don’t think the question was meant to be taken in that way though.

Soaking Sydney. Are we going to keep having apocalyptic weather all summer? Luckily I was dry at home yesterday during the storm, but it sure scared the hell out of the cat.

The Tapestry Craft Christmas Sale is now on! You’ll also note that the site has been completely rebranded, a Herculean task I managed to pull off in THREE DAYS this week. (I’m stunned myself.) Please let me know what you think!

Remember the Tea Cosy Swap package I sent off a week or two ago? Well, yesterday I got surprised at work with my own package from Westozcaat! The Express Post bag was seriously full to bursting, and Little Bec and Devvy couldn’t believe it as I kept pulling package after package out from inside. I got two handknitted teacosies (one of which from Amy’s pattern!), a knitted washcloth, four different kinds of tea, two sets of handmade stitch markers, three packets of cookies, candy, a shawl pattern, some little toys, a magnet, a lint shaver… It was incredible. Thanks so much to Westozcaat for livening up a pretty stressful week!

Dude! Club 23‘s for sale! I predict Eileen is headed to a loan shark as we speak…

The new Knitty is up, and it’s SOCKTACULAR. I like the Lighthouse Gansey Socks, Azure Socks, and Slippery Socks. I also really like the Three Tams. I have to say, though, that Kitty is the most frighteningly ugly knitted toy I’ve seen in a long time. That first picture looks like it’s about to eat the child.