I've been super-sick for the last week (and I'm not quite 100% yet) so on my first day back to work, I treated myself to a trip to AC Moore on my lunch break.

I've been searching for a wristlet strap solution. Hilde's finger knitting got me thinking ... what about those cute doll shaped spool knitters? I was just about to pick one of them up when I saw Clover's Wonder Knitter™:

The package made it sound super easy, it comes with two different sized knitting heads, AND it's made with glitter plastic. I can't pass up something made of glitter plastic. After I bought it, I found Wayne's wonderful webpage. He's an engineer who's tested every Knitting Nancy he could find. He says *this* knitter is the best. Yay!

It took me about 1 minute to figure it out. I totally love it. I think the cord is going to work perfectly for wristlet straps. I have a couple experiments I want to do, too. I'm very excited about this.

I had my first real-world crafty networking moment today. The nice, young cashier who was ringing me up at AC Moore asked what I was making (I was getting lots of yarn, too) . I told her I make handbags. I showed mine to her (I haven't shown it to you guys yet because of my *cough* cold). Long-story-short, she asked about it, and I ended up scribbling my url on a 3 x 5 card. Now I *need* some blog-cards and/or some moo cards.

I also just found out that March is National Craft Month. How cool is that!? I'm going to celebrate with a tablespoon of codeine cough syrup.

p.s. When I was looking for a link to the doll painted spool knitters, I ran across Craftlog's post about spool knitters from June 2005 - she found Wayne's This and That, too. :) That guy is way cool. Too bad he took his email address down, I'd love to thank him.