Dana Mekler

Always in my knitting bucket

Witnessing the Middle East boiling over and the plague of primaries burning through mid-western states, it gives pause and makes one actually consider if there may be substance to the Mayan prediction of utter Armageddon in 2012. So, in addition to feeling the urgency to write a long overdue post, I am also compelled to draft my Knitting Bucket List, in the hopes that whatever I don’t accomplish this year will simply slide into 2013, when we’re all given a second chance to right the world. (Hopefully)

• Life-size felted mushroom house for my Coco Kitty, featured above. End use: new fave hangout for Coco; source of me feeling like a rock star every time she’s in it.
• Fourth attempt at a sweater that actually fits my husband, this time.
• Tenth and final attempt at a sweater that fits me, has sleeves of equal length, and doesn’t make me look like I’m wearing several sweaters under it.
• A sweater that fits Coco well enough to allow actual movement (instead of her collapsing in a helpless heap as if I’ve straight-jacketed her. I mean, really, the drama.).
• Slippers for my teenager that last longer than a day without holes worn through the bottom.
• A Hello Kitty rug for Coco, which she will love so much more than the perfectly nice one I bought her from Target, simply because I made it for her. Yes, knitters and their cats have a bond that strong.
• A Hello Kitty backpack and matching headband for me to wear to Comic-Con.
• Circular chair cushions for all 10 dining room chairs, not to be abandoned from tedium, disgust, or frustration after the first or second cushion. Although it will cost me triple what it would if I just simply purchased replacements for the tattered set I have now, the source of pride I will feel when dinner guests spill wine and mash crumbs into my hand knitted ones cannot be replicated.
• Did I mention a chunky sweater that doesn’t make me look chunky?
• A knitted ‘pearl’ necklace for the random celebrity of my choice, who will then wear it on the Red Carpet and subsequently be interrogated on-camera about genius knitter of aforementioned ‘pearls’, instantly catapulting me into the long-awaited, dreamlike state of fame and fortune that I so deserve.

Oops, did I say that last one out loud? We must cling to hope.

Knit well and prosper!

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