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Just this, because I couldn’t help myself:

How's it sit? Purrrty cunning, don't you think?

Remember how I did a Regretsy yarnbomb on the Jim Boggio statue and got all kinds of love from April for it and she posted that I was going to make a hat out of the “whimsicle fuckery” piece that I’d made?  OK, maybe you don’t, but I sure do!  I took the piece down after taking the photos, because it’s not everyone’s cuppa, and I wouldn’t want to cause offense, and not everyone would understand.  Anyway, here’s the pic:

CF4L Whimsicle Fuckery

So I ended up making this, which I finished today, and which is modeled by my lovely and talented friend Heather:

Whimsicle Perkele Hat Modeled by Heather

Yes, I am sending a mobile yarnbomb to Finland, on the head of one of my favorite people, and I couldn’t be more pleased.  I love this hat to death, especially the rear view.

Perkele means something vaguely naughty in Finnish, and has become the semi-official cheer, I guess, for April Winchell’s goodwill tour/book-writing expedition, which has raised more than $15,000 for charitable causes before even packing a single suitcase.  Well done.  Although the Kickstarter effort has ended, she is always accepting donations for folks in need.  It’s not all 501(c)3’d out the wazoo, it’s just good decent folks trying to keep their fellow humans from going all the way down the drain in hard times.  You can read more about what she does on the Charity page of Regretsy.

What more can I say except,

Snoopy statue, Railroad Square, Santa Rosa, CA - Namaste, Bitches!

First of all, my heartfelt thanks to April over at Regretsy for posting about me and linking to my blog (you need to enter the password, cf4l, to see the post).  The number of subscribers has tripled overnight, so welcome, both of you.  I haven’t added much to the knitted landscape lately as I’ve been getting caught up on other projects (a pair of long-overdue slippers for one friend, a Jayne hat for another, projects for April’s Army, etc.)

Streetcolor is planning a major effort in Oakland in October that I’ve offered to help with, and there’s a breast cancer awareness thing in the works, so there’s that to look forward to.

I guess it’s a stretch to call it yarn bombing, but I was, in a sense, able to yarn bomb a Burning Man wedding this year, courtesy of friends Hugh and Anila, who asked me to knit wedding “rings” for them to put around each other’s necks for their ceremony on the Playa.  I was given very general instructions and free rein, and was told the results are exactly what they’d pictured….

Wedding "rings" for Hugh & Anila

A couple images from the ceremony (which I did not attend – Burning Man being a bit out of my league):

I got interviewed for an article in The Community Voice about my yarn bombs in and around Cotati.  Pretty nice!

In other news, Steve and I set out to (briefly) yarn bomb the Golden Gate Bridge for Regretsy’s recent CF4L contest, and won a prize for this photo:

CF4L at the Golden Gate Bridge SE viewpoint

Very grateful to April for whatever weird and wonderful thing is due to show up in my mailbox this week.  In the mean time, I took the pieces down so I wouldn’t get in trouble with park authorities, and put them back up here:

CF4L on the "Golden Gate Bridge"

Yes, I do have a 6′ x 4′ replica of the Golden Gate Bridge in my dining room. Doesn’t everyone?