holy crap! i didnt know they had knitting kits! what section is it in? not that i want the ugly baby kit, but you know, ummm... just to check things out. yea. thats it.

I happened across your blog through jenla. I read your post on not having lots of comments so I'm leaving you one. I grocery shop at Walmart too although I hate to admit it. Walmarts in the midwest are not generally scary, ok, I take that back, sometimes they are, but not for the same reasons as LA. I have many friends who refuse to shop there and call it satan-mart. Anyway, I digress. Love reading your blog. You have a great sense of humor. Sorry for the bad stuff going on in your life right now but you seem to be working through it in good ways (including sharing with us :) Also, your (zilla) posts are classics, really . . .

What if I don't know you yet, but I try to get to know you by Christmas? Might I get the scarf then?

Yeah, I used to swear by Wal-mart for all things cheap, then Jen brought me up to date on the way they treat their female employees (shameful) and other socially conscious areas in which they are severely lacking, and the last straw was when they didn't even begin to come up to snuff on the last oil change I got there (paid for the "plus service" and my radiator ran dry). Of course, down in my neck of the woods there are 3 Wal-marts. I refuse to give my business to any of them now. Target gets my hard-earned dollar now. Glad to see they've got some knit going on!

Yikes! SUCH an ugly baby layette! Reminds me of the chicken viking hat thing that's going around (do you know what I mean? if not, google "chicken viking hat") -- except the chicken hat is silly looking on purpose.

HA! I had to read the bit about the baby set a few times. I thought you were saying that the baby on the package was was the ugliest baby you've ever seen. I agree, the set is awful. But I like the idea of the kits.

At the Wal-Mart in New Castle Pennsylvania (otherwise known as butt-fuck USA) you can buy live lobsters.

There is so much that is wrong with this, I can't even begin.

Yay for Target having knitting kits. Boo for them picking that awful baby kit. Yuck! Your scarf is beautiful. =)

And worse yet is the even uglier baby modeling!

our walmarts here in NJ sound just like yours. i absolutely hate going there. on the other hand, i love target but try to avoid going because i always spend too much money, but now that they have knitting kits, might have to check that out...

your scarf is gorgeous! i love the colors!!

Beautiful, beautiful scarf! Quite lovely.

Were any of the kits cute? They all look a bit ugly from that distant photo. Ick.

Tar-zhay! I love that store. I did go there for a few months (quelle horror!) and had withdrawals. I made a trip recently and picked up some cute summery place mats for a buck each!

The scarf is loverly and looks very soft. I have some mohair I need to do something with. Perhaps I'll make a scarf like that one :D

ah for the divine scarf (thank you!) im using 10.5 needles, with stockinette and seed stitch! im sure garter or ribbing looks messy with this yarn, maybe thats why?
ah you are definately lucky down there with your toasty weather, but then again, yes it IS nice to have a chilly day once in a while. the best would be a week of this, 70, 70, 50, 38, 70, 80, and 85. If every week could go that way, we would all love it!

so, did you notice that the pet toy knit kits were called, 'cat pet toy' and 'dog pet toy'? that was the best part of the tarjay knitting selection.

Hi, I too found you via JenLa and I'm so glad I did. You are my hero. I too am in my 30's (little worse at 35) and my fiance just dumped me last weekend, the night before I was ordering my dress and putting the nonrefundable deposit down on the hotel. Because he too is going through a f'ing midlife crisis and decided he really needed to *live* more. I suppose I should be grateful he did it before and not stood me up at the wedding or within 6 months or something but still... I can't even knit yet my mind is so screwy and I can't pay attention. But just wanted to say a big Thank you! for all you have written. You and your four cats are awesome!

Target rules!

I loooove your blog. I found out about it from Jillz. I was just at Tar-zhay today looking at the knitting kits. I love Target. You said you want to picks of people and their knitting. Well I am not good at the internet thing, but if you google "squitchinglady" you will find my blog with pics of me in my one piece zipper jammies knitting! I want to be comfy when I knit. LOL

Target used to carry yarn - skeins, not kits - years ago when they first opened in Michigan. Then, Kazzam, it was gone, as was the yarn department at K-mart. I noticed today that Kmart once again has a little bit of yarn - maybe 5' of shelf space, 5 shelves high & mostly bare, but hopefully it's the start of a trend. I started going to Meijer's rather than K-mart after the latter dropped their crafts department.

Tar-jzhay is the bomb. I think a crappy Target is still better than a great Wal-mart.

That baby and outfit are just butt ugly. I'm surprised they don't have knitted toilet paper roll covers. Great blog!

walmarts in my neck of the woods suck too. i have a theory on this. the pretty walmarts are for the red states. the yucky, scaby(sp?) hot beds are for the blue states.

eh.. who needs walmart.

Walmart frightens me. I also need my weekly visit to Target. Tomorrow it's for sunscreen and a birthday gift.

Scarf looks awesome in the sunlight.

You are seriously my official new favorite knitblogger. I sweater (erm, that was supposed to be swear - freudian slip much?) that I'm not stalking you. No, really. No, I'm not. Don't be scared though...I live in Florida.

I've been to that Wal-Mart in Panorama City and will never go there again. Like you said, it's dirty. I now go to the one in Duarte. Since I work in Pasadena, it's only about 10 mins away. I buy some groceries at Wal-mart b/c it's cheaper....like cereal and Magic Shell. They seriously need a better Wal-Mart in the Valley. I just saw those knitting kits at the Target in the Empire Center (Burbank) and I wasthisclose to buying one. I was going to get the purse one, it had a very pretty yarn in the kit. But my mom convinced me to go to Michael's (located in the same shopping center). So I went there instead and bought my first pair of needles and my first skein of yarn. This was one week ago.