It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a knitter in possession of a good fortune of leftover yarn must be in want of a knitted monkey.*



This is G. B. "Packer" Dangly, who is apparently an American second-cousin to the worldly Mr. Dangly.

This Dangly kin is, as you can see, a fan of a particular American football team**. He also ice-fishes. However, he hastens to add (and part of the reason he wore his spectacles for his portrait) that he is not merely a sportif monkey; he very nearly missed being redubbed "Bilbo Dangly" (for his green and gold colors; remember the colors of Mr. Baggins' hobbit-hole?) and becoming a philologist, and not a football fan at all.

In fact, he is that sort of fan who shows up with a book tucked under his arm (or, these days, more likely, an audiobook loaded on his iPod) in case the game is a boring blowout. And ice-fishing is actually a very meditative and philisophic sport; in fact G. B. has plans some day to write a book entitled "Zen and the art of Ice Fishing."

(**It doesn't show well in the picture - I didn't like the effect of using flash so this was taken with all the lamps on high - but he is knit of grey-green and gold Araucania Naturewool - leftovers from the Fibonacci sweater. Hence his allegiance to that particular team - it's in his "fur," if not his blood)

(Mini Packers banner? Screengrab from the "official" Packers website, transferred to Powerpoint, printed out, and glued onto a broken, reglued, but saved-for-some-reason Brittany #2 double point).

(*and this is how my brain works: the name Mr. Dangly immediately makes me think of Mr. Darcy, which then sent me to look up the exact wording of the start of Pride and Prejudice)