I promised Robynn photos of the blob, so here they be:
Blob - wide-shot:

Blob - closeup of final motif:

Extra bonus knitting content - a sock for John, cobbled together with ideas from Cat Bordhi’s latest fever-dream, er, book :

(I really like that heel, and this was my first foray into linen stitch, which [...]

"She told it to me, and… like Genghis Khan or Alexander the Great, I occupied it.  It was real estate that I wanted to be part of so I just marched in and became part of it."

Remember “Wake Up Cat“?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rb8aOzy9t4

Yeah.

Fear not - this isn’t going to be one of those posts that wafts about the idea of whether knitting is an “art” or a “craft” and what that particular semantic exercise means in terms of intrinsic or perceived value of the pursuit or of the finished object, the role of gender differential in determination of worth, [...]

Hi. I’m back. I was away for about a week (last post was dateline: San Francisco, even though I didn’t mention that).
In my travels, I seem to have picked up a very small gremlin who is industriously smashing my sinuses with a brick.  Also, I got home last night - no, this morning [...]

…because she played the oboe*. (However, she should probably not play with kiddos about).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fi7Y6MFWns

“We have spawned the devil!”
* The oboe bit is about halfway in.

Naturally, when I saw this, I had to try it. The results:
me: merry christmas
en2de: Frohe Weihnachten
me: are you going to the christmas market?
en2de: Werden Sie den Weihnachtsmarkt?
me: did you bring the camel?
en2de: Haben Sie bringen das Kamel?
Which reminded me of something else I’ll yank out of the rerun file (originally entitled “Use Your [...]

…well, except this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rnhjcazfaE

Oh, I’m so proud.*  My hometown made the big-city newspaper. 
This is why Northern Exposure, in all its loony, small-town glory made perfect sense to me.
*You do see the correct use of sarcastic font, don’t you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG-0_p_yefg

This thing would send me screaming from the room.  Damn you, Children’s Television Workshop!