It was a fun, relaxing project. Just enough pattern to keep me from going bonkers from solid color knitting. I'm not sure what to call it. I'm not sure I can call one yarn over & a decrease lace or faggoting, but....
Next,
A brown on brown striped slouchy hat. That one is knit from more Palette & some other self striping, brown variegated yarn I had in my stash.
This one started off being a chevron scarf but I wasn't thrilled with it so I went frogging. I like the yarn as a hat much, much better than as a scarf.
Next up, I went cable crazy.
I found a large skein of this natural color wool in the stash pile ended up knitting several hats with it. The one above is the first. The second hat had a few design issues. It turned out way to pointy & looks like a nicely cabled dunce cap. I didn't even photograph it, although I probably should have just for giggles. The third is the ".9" hat mentioned above. I failed to photograph that one too, but it's more, but different, cables with the same yarn. I've started to decreasing so it's almost finished. Thankfully, so far, it's not looking very duncey.
A lot of other stuff has gone on over this past week besides knitting. I've been in an ongoing argument with myself about next year's homeschool bowling league. Was I or was I not going to run one. I'd been leaning heavily towards not, but I've decided to go ahead & do it and do it in a much bigger way. We won't just be a bowling league. We'll have classes going on all day long in the bowling alley's conference room as well. It's going to occupy a lot of my time, but I'm pretty excited about it too.
In between knitting & homeschool planning, I also managed to catch a mean case of poison ivy. Thankfully, it's not spread all over my body, just my right arm and left hand. But it's got that horrible bee sting itch thing that WILL NOT go away no matter how much Benedryl, Calamine or Rhuli Gel I use. It's making me extremely cranky. So cranky in fact, yesterday felt like six Mondays, Friday the 13th, April Fools Day & Murphy's Law all rolled into one. There was the annoying poison ivy itch. The cicada invasion has hit & they aren't making their normal noise. I sorta like normal cicada noise. It brings back many happy childhood summer memories. But this, this noise is horrible! It's like some kind of weird mind control noise & it's driving me absolutely mad. Madder than the poison ivy itch is driving me! On top of that, I dropped Mr. Freaky Face (my hat model) and now he looks like a scarred tough guy with a freaky white face. Some how, the button on a pair of jeans got stuck in the dry vent thing, the dryer continued to spin & the pants were spun to death. Or at least the button is was ripped off. In the process of listing four new hats in the Etsy shop, I accidently deleted six other listings. And of course, I don't know which ones they are so now I've got to take inventory & compare what's actually on Etsy to what should be on Etsy. And worst of all, I forgot to watch Vampire Diaries last night. Argh! I'm not sure there are enough yarn fumes in the whole world to help me recover from that.
I'm not going to let it get me down though. I'm going to go apply another layer of Rhuli Gel, refill the coffee cup, hope & pray that I can find last night's episode of Vampire Diaries online somewhere & finish that third cabled hat. After that, there should be enough yarn for one more!
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