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Pyjamas from Llamas by Tyapah, Ontario

At first, I wanted to knit a vest, but my husband said that it was much too fuzzy for him, and that he would not wear it. When the vest was finished, I bought a few more hanks of Cascade Pastaza, and added sleeves. What I got looked old-fashioned, with a big sash of cable patterns in the middle, like it was knitted for an honorable member of parliament running in an election. It was horrible! To spend so much money, and to not knit anything to show off! For several days, I was tortured by nightmares of the wasted years of my life.
Now about my pyjamas. I have a nervous enough, and at the same time, creative job. Because of this, sometimes I cannot fall asleep until the wee hours of the morning, analyzing or creating something. What have I not tried to force my brain to not emit anything: baths with sea salt, essential oils, relaxing herbal tea, evening walks, pilates at 2 o’clock in the morning, swimming till exhaustion in the swimming pool on the first floor. Nothing.
One time in the evening, when my husband was watching, as usually, some violence on demand, I also felt like watching something. However, having no choice in the matter, as my husband was in front of the screen, I also had to watch the same. It was cold. And as it happened, this wonderfully horrible and cozy sweater ended up in my range of vision. Of course I put it on. In a few minutes, I was peacefully napping to the screams of Dexter's victims. Now it is my pyjamas. Every evening, I drown in this fuzzy, warm and insanely comfy miracle, and sleep quietly till morning inside of this divine, woolen cloud, descended from the Andes!

 

Jimmy The Calming

My friend Jimmy, Tip for safe driving
by Natasha, Québec

I have a friend - Jimmy. I drive a lot, and he lives in my car making my life happier. Jimmy is a lavender, faux-fur, staffed Rabbit. Honestly, I just bought him a few days ago in an Italian grocery shop. He was hanging attached by clothes pins to a line strung between two aisles, his back towards me, when I was picking cucumbers or tomatoes. However, the exact details of our meeting elude me. Suddenly, I saw HIM. He was a bright lavender colour, with the big ears and a cute tail, his paws hung limply, and a huge chocolate egg was attached to his side (which, as it turned out, was delicious and made from real dark chocolate). There were many bunnies around him, the same size, with the same ears and tails, but he was lavender!! Now, Jimmy lives in my car, and I'm so happy to have him. He is very calm (perhaps, it is because of his colour?), and when I want to speed up to 150 km/h or punish a hugo boss that cut me off on the road, Jimmy's calming effect works wonders for me.
At this moment, I'm thinking what I will knit for him, when finish writing this story, and who knows, maybe next year we will skiing on Mt. Tremblant together? (P.S. I forgot to mention, he has a belly button!)

 

The yarn maniac strikes again! by Shannon Dowden, United States

Almost every time I go out, I come home with new yarn or needles. One time I came home with five bags of yarn from three different stores. My nine year old nephew said, "You could knit anything with that much yarn." Of course, that was after he said "The yarnaholic returns! The yarn maniac strikes again!" (He'd been watching Star Wars movies.) He and his two brothers love their scarves, afghans, and sweaters I have made them over the years.

 

A Finding by Irene & Mr.Sheep

Every more or less professional knitter knows that carding is a process of cleaning and intermixing of the fibers by passing them between relatively moving surfaces, covered with card clothing, to produce a continuous web or sliver suitable for subsequent processing (web may be used in the manufacture of non-woven fabrics, sliver - for spinning).
What a surprise it was, when looking through Yahoo! Help, we found that carding is also a technique used in Internet credit card fraud. It is a process to verify the validity of stolen card data. In past, defrauders (or carders) used computer programs to generate a sequence of credit card numbers and tested them online as valid accounts. Nowadays, carders can only use skimming and phishing to obtain sensitive data directly from the account holders; "sequence generating" is no longer viable due to the requirement for additional data as the billing address, card security code, the expiry date or use of wireless card scanners.
Who could have known that knitting and online credit card processing have something in common! Yours, Irene & Mr.Sheep.

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