Mood:  celebratory

For many months I have known that I had my braided hat pattern accepted by Knitscene.  I just have lived in fear that my hat would be left on the cutting room floor.  Last week--I had the thrill of receiving Knitting Daily's preview of the fall Knitscene and there it was--well photographed on a great model.  Interweave named it Xenocryst Hat.   http://www.knitscene.com/issue/Fall-2010-projects.asp#xenocryst-hat  

What does Xenocryst mean?  It didn't hit my Websters, but I found this explanation on line A xenocryst is an individual foreign crystal included within an igneous body. Examples of xenocrysts are quartz crystals in a silica-deficient lava and diamonds within kimberlite diatremes.  I like the name, I like the model, I like the photography--I'm just happy.

I'll be excited when the magazine hits the newsstands July 20.   Linda