Shout Out

My following has doubled on this blog! Yay-uh! Tabby, you'll be disappointed, but I give you kudos for trying. LOVE YA LOTS!!! I'm slogging away at the red hood. It's an unbearable task at this point. I am on the last section and the part I've finished has done that thing that cables do--squished up and become small and pitiful....I think, yeah, I can just block it when I'm done...but every time I have attempted to block a synthetic fiber it's been a disaster..or if not a disaster, it has at least completely changed the project. And not a little. I'm going to take a picture of it but I'm wearing the damn thing anyway. I made it for the cold and the cold is here.

The HOOD

SO I started knitting the little red riding hood and used an entire skein just on the hood. Couldn't find another skein when I checked WalMart and thought...well, there's some red that's pretty CLOSE....so I checked back and found a single skein of the Berry Red (or Red Berry. Not sure which.) So I knit the back of the hood....then I've got this long thing and I'm thinking, I will need at LEAST two or more skeins of this stuff...can't find it. So I choose the CLOSE color. And I bought two large skeins in case I need it. And in some lights, you can hardly tell the difference. The original is a little tiny bit lighter, with more yellow, and a little shine. The new color is duller, darker and redder. And in other lights it just doesn't even look like the colors are in the same family. CRAP! Lesson learned. Buy a lot if you plan on making something big. But I didn't plan on making something big. It just went that way. I also went back to one of those fancy schmancy scarves in black I made a long time ago, unraveled and then rolled into a ball. I fished it out and started it about 8 times, each time less satisfied with the ruffliness. That's floating around in my bag because the Red Hood is no longer portable. I don't know what's going to happen next. Maybe a hat.

Life in the Hood

Ha! I found one skein of red berry yarn. SHIT. I figure, there are other Wal Marts. I'm just going to keep knitting. I went on cabling the body of the...whatever it is. I really think it's going to be a hooded wrap/ scarf type thing. I wanted something to grab and put over my work clothes when it's chilly. I think cables are so gorgeous. I love them, and this is going to be a lot of them. I'm enjoying it. I realize now I shouldn't have put the tassle on the hood yet, as a great deal of flipping back and forth is not doing it any good at all. But live and learn. Sometimes lately I've got the idea that I am invincible when it comes to yarn...it is the best media to work in- if you make a mistake you can always start over, when you learn how to pick up stitches you can go anywhere...it's great! I love it so much. My hands are getting a little sore but as long as I don't do a lot of little tight fiddly things it's bearable.

Red Riding FAIL

Crap! I went to Wal Mart yesterday in search of more red yarn for the project and guess what? That's right. No red yarn. Not in the color I need anyway. RATS!!! I was so disgusted but at the same time thinking, figures. I've been cabling away, and I may have enough yarn to make the actual hood, but that's it. So I don't know where to go with it next. Maybe I'll just make a hood and that will be that?

Red Riding Hood

I have avoided using red to make anything because of little red riding hood, but this time screw it I'm making a red hood with maybe a red cape attached....years ago when I made my fleece poncho I avoided red. But this next project I am going to indulge my love of the color red and be done with it. I don't care what anyone says.

Changes

Well-I wont be posting as much in the future, possibly, but that's ok. I figure no one will notice anyway! I'm getting geared up to disconnect my internet and TV-- really, there are 23 channels on antenna and I can take my computer to work if I need to do anything with wifi. I will still be knitting! Probably knitting more than ever! I hope to save about $200 a month without the delicious, deadly Uverse. Yep. Gourmet TV is about to go. So without TV and internet I should really be knitting a lot. We shall see! ****Oh, I am a big ol' drama queen. I am embarrassed to say I have decided to find a way to keep everything I want. I think. More like I accept the fact that I am going to be paying a crippling entertainment fee this winter. I don't care. There's nothing else to do! It's too cold.****

Teal

I made a teal ear flap hat. Now I'm working on a furry edged teal hat.