No picture yet,

But you can imagine it. I'll download it as soon as my dear husband and household tech support manager clarifies what exactly I have to do to install Picasa, or whatever new picture software we're going for. We had a wee hard drive failure last week, and I'm not 100% back yet. Still using webmail, no photo software, no bookmarks...It's annoying, but not catastrophic b/c my darling man has recovered all the data.

Anyway, imagine the scene: I've got a great shot of Silver (who's currently draped across my shoulder and chest like a furry purring stole) sitting up next to my new knitting book. He's bigger, a handsome kitty adolescent. I had a whole blog post planned around the shot. Silvie looks like he's King of Cables, and the new Melissa Leapman book about cables looks fantastic.

I bought the book with a B&N giftcard my dear mother in law gave me for Christmas. Why? Because the sweaters looked cute AND they come in BIG GIRL SIZES! GO, MELISSA! I don't know if I can convey my feelings about this without sounding negative about my shape, so bear with me here. I don't actually hate myself or my dress size. Of course I'd be healthier and live longer if I lost 80 pounds or so, but I don't hate myself.

I do hate that it's hard to find plus-sized knitting patterns. I'm a size 2X-3X, not the biggest woman in North America by any stretch of the imagination, but plenty large. You'd think more knitwear designers would recognize that by doing a little more math, they'd be able to sell more patterns!

Of course I could size up the patterns myself, but it's just kind of insulting to give your money to someone who implicitily doesn't want it. So Melissa Leapman, THANK YOU! I bought your book because the patterns come in my size! THANK YOU, MELISSA!