Thom Courcelle, never a dull moment

[Nancy Bell Scott]

Knitting might seem straightforward (I wouldn't know, personally), but Thom's isn't:

After opening, I was turning this every which way, trying to decide the right view.  Maybe it's a duck on a skateboard or scooter?  In walks my husband, who takes one look and says, "oh, OOB, that's great!"  We live in Old Orchard Beach, OOB, and of course, there it is!  Or is it?  There's a jag at the top of the dark blue first supposed O, and it makes one wonder.  It started to look like a C, and if it is -- and I think it is -- it makes the letters COB.  This would be short for Compulsive-Obsessive-Boob, which is sort of clearly explained by our discussion on Thom's blog from a week or a little more ago.

Here is the nicely done back of Thom's knitted piece:

One of the mysteries of this good piece of work is that it's shut on all sides.  And there's a card in there, I can see it!  From the front view, green letters can be seen, and so I'm left to wonder, What Is In There, Thom?

Last, here is an image of Thom's see-through envelope, which includes really nice stamps, an admitting ticket (I admit I stuck it back in there upside-down by mistake), and this free-floating figure bearing some resemblance to the devil, a bat, and an elf:

The thing is, at some point while writing this entry I realized that this figure has stuck on the end of its pitchfork ... yes ... a corn-on-the-COB.  Our knitted COB wonderings are over, methinks.  Thank you, Thom!  This came on a day when I've been in the middle of making a new piece for you -- it's still in progress but pressing right now in some antique dictionary with an extremely heavy railroad track piece on top plus a couple of SAD irons.

Yours,

COBby

[Nancy Bell Scott]

Now Thom, are all those knittings around the COB meant to bring to mind corn on the cob?  I mean, the little pieces of corn.  Cornlets on the cob?  (or off the cob.)  They're looking like a neat pile of cornlets to me at the moment.  How will I sleep tonight.  Plus you all are making me laugh, which shouldn't happen after 4 pm if one hopes to sleep before midnight.

[1cgqtuoblpeqc]

that would be AWESOME!!!

[Thom Courcelle]

Superhero, are you trying to abuse people's compulsive-obsessive knitting tendencies with such a request?  Maybe you need a knitted superhero cape??

[1cgqtuoblpeqc]

i want a king size knitted postcard blanket!!!!

[1cgqtuoblpeqc]

did it keep you warm at nights lisa?

[Thom Courcelle]

WhooO-HOooOO!  You correctly deciphered all the clues for the true knit message!  After our designation last week of our mail art BFF code-word, I couldn't help but create a new COB masterpiece for you--which of course perfectly exemplifies my own C.O.B. tendencies...

The card inside the piece simply helps to hold the shape of the piece and give it some rigidness for the postal service... For some reason they tend to get flumuxed when I try mailing limp blankets. (Honestly, you'd think they could be resourceful, but alas!)  So you got it, the messaging is all in the stitches.  :)

[DKeys]

I love this! Never received or conceived of a knitted card

[1cgqtuoblpeqc]

first thing i thought was cob,

but of course, i am in iowa!!! ;-D