Twinknit

At long last, the results of the mini-contest.

As I said earlier, part of my motivation for the mini-contest was selfish — I was curious to know how many, if any, people could identify Jean Ritchie by sight (yes, it was Jean Ritchie). This was not a very scientific process. Clearly, people who didn’t know didn’t guess (where’s the fun in that?). But, I was pleased to see that three of y’all got it right.

Congrats Bitterknitter, Trek, and Kat. You guys have good taste

For those of you who don’t know much about Jean Ritchie, check this out. She’s pretty amazing.

And now, for the contest winner… also a very (un)scientific process. While I was tempted to give all three of you prizes (sheesh, it’s only three!), I stuck to my guns and picked one winner. Drawing a name out of a hat seemed a pretty ho-hum way to pick a winner (besides, when there are only three names, that seemed a little unnecessary). Instead, I wrote each of the names on a piece of paper (a post-it note, to be precise)

And let the kitties decide.

First, they inspected the paper.

Then, after I threw them in the air, they kicked them around a bit.

Hank made the final selection, picking up the piece of paper he liked the best, carrying it across the room, and snuggling with it (these days, Hank loves to snuggle-fight with paper. Strange cat).

And the winner is:

Trek, send me an e-mail with your address and I’ll try and get that prize in the mail tomorrow. Congratulations!

I’m hoping for some FO’s tonight. I’ve been a viscious frogger this week, taking out a lot of knitting that wasn’t working (including the first few inches of my second New England sock and this:

which wasn’t knitting to gauge and was huge - if squishy and beautiful).

And, for fear that I will be accused again by friends of mine that I love Hank more than Phoebe (how is this possible? She is so sweet and little and she gurgles when she’s happy to see me!), some photos. Look where I found her yesterday afternoon — she was in hot pursuit of a fly: