We'll start our Santa Fe travelogue with two photos of the Romanesque-style St. Francis Cathedral. No downtown building may be built higher than the cathedral's bell towers. The cathedral is the mother church for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe which covers all of northern New Mexico including Albuquerque. I'm always amazed they still manage to have services there with all the tourists wandering through at all hours of the day.









Archbishop Lamy completed the church in 1884 and is buried under the sanctuary - he was the subject of Willa Cather's Pulitzer-prize winning novel Death Comes for the Archbishop. St. Francis is the patron saint of Santa Fe and the complete name of the city is the La Villa de la Santa Fe San Francisco de Assisi (Royal City of the Holy Faith of St. Francis of Assisi). Since 1610 Santa Fe has been under four different flags: Spain, Mexico, the U.S. Confederacy and the United States.







Enough with the history. For some reason the rabbit mitten is taking forever so I'm not going to make more than 1 pair for the HRS. Next I think I'm going to come up with a pair of bunny slippers. I was thinking of using Cascade 220, doing a simple pair of roll-top socks, and then adding embroidery eyes and some separately knit ears. Oh yes, and a pom pom tail on the heel. Too silly? Does anyone know how well Cascade 220 would hold up for slippers or socks?