I'll take on the organizing responsibilities, if that's ok with you?

HOLY SHITAKE, BATMAN!!!! I *know* Bloomies is 'spensive, but that is friggin ridiculous. That's why all my friends tell me I should sell my stuff. Purl, you and me, we set up a kiosk at the Century Park mall, we make a *KILLIN'*, I tell you!!! We'll keep Soba and Roy with us. No one will be able to resist (or else!)

Have you seen Muriel's Wedding? If not, go get it. She does a very similar thing with photos of wedding dresses. It is very funny and the happily ever after isn't the normal one.

You can make scarves and hats like that, honest.

Anmiryam! That would be awesome! I will make you some buttons today. THANK YOU!!

And we shall have fuzzy feet!!

Oh, I'm going to remove the p.s. now. Since Anmiryan generously offered to set up a Fuzzy Feet knitalong, and I will make buttons and then we shall go forth and make fuzzy feet throughout the land, and the land shall be happy. And full of warm feet. the end.

Yeah -- $168 for a knitted hat. HELLO!

I'd buy a pair of fuzzy feet from you!

That picture of the cat's are just crazy! How do you catch those?

LOL

Isn't $168 what we would charge if we were selling it? The difference is that small Cambodian children are probably knitting those and they are thus overpriced.

Love your blog - it really brightens my day.

thats absolutely ridiculous for a knit hat!
I've learned that the best way to get photos in an uppity department store like that is to use my camera phone - just a tip for future, we don't want to have to bail you our from Bloomingdales jail (if a hat is $168, what would bail be??).

Poor Roy.

hmmmm,

Taking photog's in a major department store. I think, perhaps, it possibly, 'could' be a way to meet big, buff, store-security-type men. ? Nothing wrong with that.

$168.00? It really doesn't sound so expensive...

I would have to charge $346.00 (Canadian) for my knit hats ('toques' if you speak Canadianish) Even then I would only be earning minimum wage. I guess i'm a slow knitter. Bloomingdales and Holt Refrew haven't called yet.

Newbie CAP (you are now an acronym) blog reader here. You have an incredible sense of humour, and are a fine writer. Thank you.

Cheers,
Jake

Did you see I figured out how to purl - and rib! It wa sa very exciting night at my house.

Opie is pleased - he thinks this means that I will soon be knitting very cute doggy sweaters!

Yeah, people are so damn suspicious when you take pictures of things. I do try to use my camera phone at stores. Maybe they thought you were going to use the photos to make cheap knock-offs. You know, nice things people can actually AFFORD.

$168 for a hat?

As we say in NorCal, hell to the naw.

oooooh, I never thought of how much I'd charge if I sold my hats. Maybe... ONE MILLION DOLLARS?? (Said in Dr. Evil voice of course!)

Anyone care to buy a roll-brim hat for ONE MILLION DOLLARS? Bonus! It's big enough to fit two heads!! heh heh

I've heard of your blog thru Crochet Dude's blog and had to visit. My husband and I were once shopping for my son's birthday and were taking pictures of jackets so he could pick one since he hates shopping and was elsewhere. The sales droid ran up to us and said you can't do that! A huge lie about him breaking his leg and his soccer career being over and his heartbreak, etc. was about to roll off my tongue but I managed to look vaporous instead and apologized. I need to be more sneaky, I guess. Love your blog!

$168? Think of how much yarn you can buy for $168 and how many hats you can make out of it.....with pom poms of course :)

Starbuck's coffee $1.95
White Truffle Oil from Whole Foods - $45.00
Hat from Bloomies - $168.00
Crazy Aunt Purl - Priceless

i was taking pictures in the subway this morning -- i'm living on the edge.

i bought yarn for the fuzzy feet

I'm worried about Roy! He looks a bit nervous in this shot!

If you LOVE pom-poms check this out I about flipped when I saw it :)

http://socialitelife.com/mt/archives/victoria_beckhams_got_balls.php

Yes, I read trashy gossip blogs too :) SUE ME!!!!

Ohhhhhh your influence is changing me changing me...I have become a unashamed drinker of martinis on Tuesday nights. I don't understand it but I find myself at favorite drinking hole on a school night (literally -- I work in a school) with no qualms...just trying to adjust to the hangovers...apparently B supplements --- in addition to the massive quantities of water I drink while drinking --- is the thing to do...any advice? No I will not give up those heavenly cosmos and all the new friends I am making (no they are not drunkards necessarily).

I think Soba is just acting out in her anxiety over NO NEW 'LOST' THIS WEEK (or next week)!! I know that I've got my claws on my neighbor's jugular over that one.

What the hell? It isn't like it is Thanksgiving week or anything. I just got over my summer hiatus withdrawls.

but then, we live in a land where knitted hats cost $168 at Bloomies, so I dunno.

ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY EIGHT DOLLARS? GOD.

Oh Purlie,
You can sooo make that Bloomies hat. It's just got some fancy schmancy embroidery on it and some dangling earflaps. Easy!!! I saw some extremely sloppy garter stitch scarves at the Art Museum store last year....fuzzy yarn, big needles, ends hangin' out. They were charging $150 per scarf! Huh?! They were horrible. We make MUCH nicer ones for a fraction of the cost.

Girl, I can't believe the things you do. You are something else. You make life happen.

Please remember that most of us get paid at the end of the week. Just keep this in mind if you have to call one of us to bail you out.

Love the photos and thanks for adding the upscale (ridiculous priced) store.

And by the way, I've marked my calendar for the June 2007 scarf. :->

Tootles~

What kind of fur is that on the had some endangered species that they have the nerve to charge $168 for a knitted hat??? Target has them very similar for $15-20!!. $5 on sale!

Don't worry Laurie, all your fans will chip in on your bail from Bloomie's jail. We can't live without our daily Crazy Aunt Purl fix, after all!

I take pictures in Target all the time, but then that's a high-end department store for me. $168 for a hat? What Kathy said...

Poor Roy. It looks like Sobakawa has him in a Vulcan Death Grip.

Oooh, I so love Aqua stuff. If they can have a ridge, I can have a ridge. I am making a Harry Potter scarf next.

Just who pays these prices????
Also, skip the big burly security type guy at Bloomies...he's probably getting minimum wage....and couldn't afford to get you the hat...

Jen, does that mean you actually read Harry Potter??

The reason those Gap and J. Crew scarves don't have the ridge is because they're actually tubes, so the ridge is on the inside where you can't see. Same with the Harry Potter scarves, actually.

Is actually my word of the day or what?

I don't feel quite so bad about my lurid past now...We were trying to put together an affordable party (ha!) & I got nabbed at Costco for...(I'm so ashamed!) Writing down prices of their products! (no camera phone) Sadly, I was ignorant that comparison shopping was an illegal activity! And the security guy was a wimpy little thing, not worth the bail at all. Good thing he let me go as a first time offender.

yeah for the fuzzyfeet-a-long! I need to finish trellis first, then I can start, OK?

April

Oh my goodness!!! I can't believe $168 for the hat!! It's a beautiful hat mind you, but one hundred sixty eight dollars!! How many starving children could you feed with that?!

I'm SO glad Betsey Johnson is making cute stuff again. The trailer trash/slut era made me crazy mad at her.

I love Sobakawa. From a distance.

OK, y'all, I know how to avoid the ridge on striped ribbed things, so I'll share my secret here: when you switch colors, knit across the entire row (on the front side, of course--if you're on the back side, then purl across). Do not do this row in ribbing. Then continue in ribbing on the next row as if nothing unusual has happened. The un-ribbed row will just disappear into the ribbing, and no striped ridge on the back!

Try it, you'll like it!

Helen

Oops, I just described how to get rid of the weirdness in ribbed stripes, not how to get rid of the ridge on the back of plain stockinette stripes. Hmm. Well, it's cute to introduce the new color in an intentional reverse stockinette ridge.

Anyway. I am not so brilliant after all. I think I'll go have a cosmo now.

Helen

I have made a commitment to stop reading your blog while drinking any kind of beverage, but particularly any beverage of the hot variety. It is too dangerous. Love the carjackistan entry and the picture of Roy and Pepe la Cat. Would love to see photos from Bloomie's jail as well!

What's even funnier is the security device on that scarf.

Oh, I took pictures once in a public building and I told the people working there I was taking the picture for my sick Mom so I could convince her to go there....hehe.

Now I understand why Shirley MacLaine recommends a daily nasal rinse. Cause? That picture of Death_Lord_Soba and Innocent_Virginal_Roy just made me snort warm ginger tea into my sinus cavities. After the initial agony (thanks, Purl!), my sinuses are now strangely clear and my headache of 3 days has dissipated. Wow!
Crazy Aunt Purl's blog - it's good AND good for you.

*sigh*

sobakowa has stolen roy's heart from me.

i have my camera with me most of the time, and oh sooo many times i was sooooo tempted to take pictures of products in the stores, but never brave enough to sneak sneak click click ;p u r awesome!! the hat is adorable....but the price tag!! ;p

And if we buy a knitted hat for $168...the terrorists will have won!!!

How DO you get such amazing kitty photos? Every time the camera comes out, I end up with the same thing...a really, really close up of Mattie's face because she is feverishly sniffing the camera!

you are going upscale....from Target to Bloomies. Crazy Aunt Purls go where haji's fear to tread. I don't go NEAR Bloomies....

Why the gratuituos... gratooitous... grat... um...extra cat shot?

Is there a way to escape the ridge of color? If so, please tell me the great secret.

And to think I was feeling guilty about charging AUD$40 (about US$30) for my hand-knitted hats...

Who the f*ck buys this stuff?

I stumbled on your site when looking for a Noro scarf pattern. Remember when you were pretending to non-knitters that blocks were really complex to knit?

Purl -- no legwarmers at Bloomies?? In case no one has told you yet .... the latest Vogue Knitting has a legwarmer pattern!!! I think that means they are officially IN.

YOU can make the hat!! Just a plain off-white hat, right? With faux-fur at the bottom, Right? and a few colorful flowers embroidered on, RIGHT? Go OUT AND MAKE ONE!!!! ant then wear it to Bloomies and strut your stuff!! i used to copy clothes for my daughter-we were poor, but I could sew-- I even took the lables off old clothes- levies and such that she had gotten for Christmas ans out-grown, and sewed them to new jeans I made-- Hard to tell the difference!!!

LOVE the kitty picture! Mine do the same thing only it's a headlock so they can wash each others ears - completely grosses me out.

$168 actually made me feel good about my knitting. I once went to the Mall of America and found an Alpaca store with hand knitted sets of a matching sweater, socks, hat, scarf and mittens for $45. I had to fight back the tears since there was no way in hell I could make that set for that cheap.

You already have a pattern for that hat. It's just an adult version of the Baby UGGS hat from DIY with a little embroidery (machine- not even hand embroidery!) down the sides. If you ask around, you probably even know someone with an embroidery sewing machine. Now up-sizing the hat does involve the dreaded maths, but you could probably find a similar adult sized version on your beloved internets. And if you use the same fuzzy stuff from the baby UGG booties, no little furry creatures will be harmed in the making of YOUR million dollar hat. And you could easily add i-cord ties with HUGE pompoms on the ends. I'll stop now.

Yikes on the $168 hat! And at your adventures with Bloomindale's security! Next time turn the flash from your camera off and maybe they won't notice you.

Roy and Soba, sitting in a tree...

Gosh, thats a cute pic of those two!

168 for that? Well, if I had knit it, it would be worth it, but you know some machine did most of the work and the machine was run by a child in a "third world" country somewhere. (hey, remember that song "One World Is Enough For All Of Us" by Sting? Just heard it in the car...)

Somebody is buying it, folks, just slap a price tag on it, and it your's will sell, too!

I just wanted to "leave my mark". You're amazing. You get like 5,000 comments?!?!? Anyways, I wrote a little bit about you on my blog.

I bet you could knit all those things in Bloomies. They are ridiculuously expensive!!!

I will be your daily reader.

Hee! Good thing security didn't catch you, they'd think you're someone from a competitor doing some corporate spying. Or a terrorist out to destroy America's supply of ridiculously overpriced knitwear. Good God, the horror!

yes, poor Roy. He looks like a little mini tiger!

Hee! Good thing security didn't catch you, they'd think you're someone from a competitor doing some corporate spying. Or a terrorist out to destroy America's supply of ridiculously overpriced knitwear. Good God, the horror!

yes, poor Roy. He looks like a little mini tiger!

I'd love to have a pair of those fuzzy feet. I'm my own Santa this year, as I am in the middle of a divorce myself. I'm living in an apartment with light colored Berber carpet so ALL shoes get left at the front door- and ALL TOES get frigid. I don't knit- I crochet- and I don't even know if it would be possible for me to knit. (thanks to a doctor who did carpal tunnel surgery on me and didn't know what he was cutting...)
LOVE your site, dear, and I'm beginning to wonder if I should try to knit myself...I already have a bad case of "love that yarn I'll get it and crochet something later"...

It's amazing what you can Knit these days.My friend said that his mother made him a homosexual
and his friend asked if he got her the wool would she make him one as well.