Soft Fuzzies

That's the soft fuzzy hat. HIDEOUS! And yet I have more of the yarn so I may knit a furred collar to go with it. My problem with that fur yarn is every time I edge a hat with it and bind off, it becomes very tight. I must remember to make it significantly bigger, or loosen it. Or something. I've had to mess with it every time and that yarn is unforgiving. I mean 'unforgiving' in that you can't go back and fix a mistake. Or even unravel. It's a mess, and you have one shot to get it right.

Amanda Hat

I knitted this hat for my friend Amanda who is going on to school, and better things I hope. I will certainly miss her. I know I will miss that hat. I tried it on and it fit so nicely. It was another one I did with the 'moss' stitch as brim instead of 1p1k rib stitch. I can't keep them all, that's for sure. I experimented with some very BIG yarn I have. Meh. I also have yarn my friend from work brought for the dishcloths. So I might better start learning how to make those...and here is my mind set in that regard...people make those when they are learning to knit. Ought to be a piece of cake. And I may learn something to help me now! We shall see. At any rate, I have things I need to do (Finish that baby blanket, as well.....so uninspired. SO UNINSPIRED. Like i know it can't turn out well at this point and I am just prolonging the inevitable.) I also whipped up a hat from some thick, terry cloth like yarn I got a long time ago. I need to take a pic of that and I think I will!

Hat and Scarf

I finished the moss stitch scarf and put it with the hat and actually have a picture. A terrible one, but nonetheless....

Baby Blanket Blues Continue

Well I know NEVER to try something new on something important. And yet, I do it time and time again. Kamish's blanket is nearling completion...such as it is. I am just plowing through, because I need to finish it. I am almost to the point of being back at just the pink 'moss' stitch. My first attempt at intarsia is a little disappointing. If I had time I would try some different things but I need to get this damn thing done and I'm JUST going to do it. So the purple inset with the teal heart is going to be one of those things that I add things to until I can stand it. Because the intarsia alone was not very successful. I put a border of a single crochet chain around it, but I am planning to add some teal lace and ribbon. LOL. It's going to be a mess. But it will be done. After that (if I can bear to look into the knitting future...) I am going to make some simple dishcloths for a friend at work. She brought me the yarn and I'm going to do it. If I have to find a pattern. The ironic, funny part is she says I made her some already and she loves them...she must have me confused with another yarn worker. But! I will make her the best dang dishcloths she ever used. I hope. I have a huge bag of yarn from friend Darla but I'm not sure...it's very old, and fuzzy. I'm not sure what to do...the idea of a shawl came to me...maybe she suggested it. It's kind of a peach and in the day was a very high dollar yarn. I think it's part merino or angora or something. But you know how when yarn gets really old it sort of turns stiff? This is like that. Not sure if it's the mix or what. But. I may do something amazing anyway.

Baby Blanket Nightmare

I am supposed to be getting ready for a dr. appointment. I don't really want to go and I am on the verge of chickening out- for many reasons. My thumb is so very important to me. So I started Kamisha's baby blanket the first week of July, discovering shortly thereafter that the thing was 6 feet long when I un-needled it. Unraveled and began again, smaller. So far so good. I might have 8-10 inches going. And now I have the possibility of thumb surgery. Aside from the fact that I am a total wuss as far as doctors go, I am beginning to think I can really live with this thing going on rather than fix it. So. I suppose I need to get ready.

Neopolitan Hat

The light doesn't do this magnificent hat justice, but I love it! I am also probably keeping it. And knitting a scarf to go with it. Started the brim with a 'moss stitch'- or my interpretation of one. I didn't do a rib stitch at all and I love the way it hugs onto your head without the structure of ribbing. I have made many many hats this way, then added ear flaps, but this one, I just thought, I can't do that to you, you pretty, pretty hat. I am going to wear your ice cream colors as is. So the scarf is going to be a 'moss stitch' too. All that is it, k-p-k-p-k-p and then the next row p-k-p-k-p-k- on and on and on. In the three colors. I am sure I will go crazy at some time, but I am in the mood for a not too much thought pattern. Of course I really need to be getting in gear with K's baby gift, but I have til August...I think...

Lace Hat

I knit a lace hat in sparkly pink and purple. I love it and can't wait til it's not 100 degrees out so I can wear it. It snowed up in WY this weekend. That is where all menopausal sweat box ladies should be. I am gearing up for a baby gift for one of my dearest friends at work Kamisha, who is due in a couple months. I need to find pink, blue and teal to go together...but I don't know if I should try a blanket...ugh. I am so very BAD at blankets. I'm not much good at hats for babies, either! I probably should wait to post until I am feeling accomplished and awesome instead of the way I do now!