I love my ungrateful little puppies.

Why is it that every time I discuss my knitting and my dogs within 5 minutes of each other, people assume I knit things for my dogs?  If you know me, you know that I have no interest in dressing my animals.  They also have no interest in being dressed.  When Ruby was a few months old, she had mange, and we had to put a cream on it.  To keep her from licking the cream off, we put a shirt on her.  The shirt lasted until we turned our backs for more than a second, and it was off and hidden somewhere as if the 'clothes on a dog' incident had never happened. I barely like to knit for other PEOPLE, let alone my ungrateful little puppies.  I love them, I do. But for some reason they don't grasp the work that goes into crafting.

These are my dogs.  They're playing, I promise.  Just a good action photo.  But best of luck getting sweaters on them.

I need something pretty.

I need some inspiration.  I've got a stash of boring yarns, mostly things from major craft stores, nothing interesting.  My fiancee did some computer work for a yarn distributer last year, and brought me home about $600 worth of GORGEOUS hand painted wool (how amazingly lucky am I?). And I love it. But there are 4 colors and they're all in the same weight, and I need a break from just using those.

Inspiration is a good reason I started blogging.  I've taken a lot of inspiration from other people's blogs, hoping to produce things as gorgeous and well made as theirs look.  So, in turn, I'm hoping to inspire some other fellow crafters out there.  I've been posting patterns on Ravelry lately, and when someone posted a finished object that I had written the pattern for, it was amazing.  Someone interpreted my work into something that they could have and enjoy.  What a great feeling!

But, Omg... there are a lot of blogs out there.  So easy to get lost in the sea of  self expression.  One for everything, apparently.  There are clearly knitting blogs, but there are also dark blogs, fashion blogs, fitness blogs, pet blogs, fat and proud blogs, book blogs, celebrity blogs, parenting blogs... it goes on and on.

Hopefully, I'll end up with something that people actually find interesting.  I hope I can provide something to our so oversaturated internet that people can learn a technique from, or at least get a little laugh at my rambling.

That being said, my dog is begging me to play, whining that I'm on the computer and now entertaining him.  Clearly smarter than I am, why look for inspiration on the computer when I can go out into the real world this afternoon?

Willy is the tan guy, and the top picture is him begging for me to do anything but sit on the couch.  Ruby is the brown and white, who clearly makes a great pillow.  Nothing naughty about that pose, he was just lounging, and she was in his way of the sun.

I'll be back with hopefully a head full of ideas and a bag full of new yarn!