First off: The new KnitNet is up! Yaaaaay! They are also starting a new feature, of socks for every season. Three this issue - two toe-ups (guess I'll have to try a pair someday; I just LIKE making them cuff-down) and a pair of "toe socks" (ones with a separate big toe; in Japan they would be called tabi).

I am going to peruse it at home, so I can print out any of the patterns I like.

Also, a new Friday Five is up:

1. What's your favorite piece of clothing that you currently own?

I have a jacket I made from a Palmer and Pletsch pattern - one of those "wearable art" patterns. It has sleeves made from purple denimy fabric (of which I used the wrong side because I preferred how it looked) and a body made from a beautiful printed finewale corduroy - black background with very fine purple, red, turquoise, and gold feathers printed on it.

I feel powerful when I wear that jacket.

My next favorite is the chenille bathrobe my mom gave me for my birthday a couple years ago.

2. What piece of clothing do you most want to acquire?

I'm not tremendously acquisitive about clothing. I suppose I would like a very long very full black or dark saddle brown skirt, made out of a good flowy fabric. (My favorite types of clothes are those in Coldwater Creek's or Simply Southwest's catalogs.

3. What piece of clothing can you not bring yourself to get rid of? Why?

I have a couple of skirts I got as "interview skirts" that are really not me - they are too short and I am never comfortable wearing them. (Also, the fashion where I currently live is to wear longer skirts). I can't part with them though because they were expensive and I hardly ever wore them.

I generally have a hard time getting rid of clothing. Even when it's worn out.

4. What piece of clothing do you look your best in?

Probably a princess-line dress. I tend to carry myself straighter and taller when I am in a dress or skirt than in pants. And princess-line dresses show off the fact that I have a figure.

5. What has been your biggest fashion accident?

Remember the 1980s? Remember the trickle-down from "Miami Vice" of the big white cotton blazers with the folded up sleeves? I had one of those. Also: a teal skirt worn with a wheat-yellow Quaker stitch sweater, and a string of teal plastic beads to top it off.

the 1980s were a bad bad fashion decade for me. I was just starting to get interested in clothes and there were so many mistakes for me to make.