Sunday, September 17, 2006

Top Secret Project

Butch It Up productions went into overdrive Friday night and Saturday, knitting up a storm in order to finish Ruby and Fiona's 6 month birthday presents. They were supposed to be "Happy Being Born" presents, but obviously, I need a harder deadline than my friend delivering her babies.

And so this is why I haven't been blogging.





When I mentioned to David that I was knitting robots, he mentioned that he'd just finished a book called How to Survive a Robot Uprising. I requested it from the library, and it's come in, so I'll get to read it on my holidays.

But I do believe the ability to knit a robot is a good start. If all else fails, I can offer to knit robot cozies to keep them warm while they revolt.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Excellent baby gifts, and by the way I love the babies' names, Ruby and Fiona. Six-month presents are much better than getting-born presents. I used to give my kid a present every year halfway between birthdays...I called it his Halfy Birthday present. I'd bake half a cake too.

Did you create the robot pattern?

Asteroidea Press said...

Their full names are Ruby Amelia and Fiona Beatrice. In the ultrasounds, Ruby was Twin A and Fifi was Twin B. It makes me happy to think of that.

I wish that I had made up the pattern for those robots, but I could barely knit them.

Here's who made up the pattern:
http://www.jesshutch.com/
I've got her book, which has many other toys just as cute as the robots.

susie said...

awesome bots! You have raised the bar higer than I could have imagined for kick-ass baby gifts. I think I'm going to have to buy them ponies now for my "pleased to meet ya" presents.

-susan

Anonymous said...

Very wise of you to demonstrate an affection for robots.

When the robots take over, our choices will be:
1) live a hunted, feral existence;
2) become the pet of a robot; or
3) die.

Option 2 is the one I'm aiming for.