Ends…so many ends
So when the inside of your project looks like this... There's going to be a point where you're confronted with these... And you have a little breakdown. But then? Then you remember that you were once an eight year old girl, and you won't be daunted by a mess of strings. So you do this. Now is it the most practical thing? No. Should you just weave in your ends like a grown up? Probably. But I'm doing this (then tacking it down to the inside of the hat to hide the bundle of ends). Because it's my hat and [...]
And the winner is…
Turns out the yellow won. It was a close race (I actually tried both because I was feeling that indecisive). On the hat, I liked the yellow best. And now...now it's more or less done! Well...except for dealing with the insides. And um, maybe making a pompom. Because apparently that's what I do now...hats and pompoms. It's a good life! [pextestim pex_attr_set="looking-for-this-pattern" pex_attr_autoplay="false"][/pextestim]
Let’s have some more of that, shall we?
While I was distracting you with the fetching orange striped mitts, the hat decided to get bigger. Quite a bit bigger actually... So big that I may only have room for five colors (the set comes with six, and I'd hoped to have room for them all, but that may not quite work out). I'm torn between the pale green, and the yellow. The green feels a little cooler, somehow more sedate. And the yellow more cheerful. I think either is probably actually fine...but somehow that makes the choice all the harder.
Unwavering
So it seems I couldn't stop with just the hat, I needed some cuffs too. They're called Unwavering, they're out now, and you can them get 10% off with the code STEADFAST (but read on, because if you want the matching hat, you can do something cooler). I like this more than any reasonable person should. It's not hard...it's not fancy...it shouldn't be this amusing. And yet somehow, it is. On the hat I had the lovely orange stripe go swirling off on a little jaunt. Here I kept the stripe steady and instead let the thumb gussets do all [...]
Not even pretending any more
That's it. I'm just accepting that gray hats are my thing, I love them, I knit a lot of them, I'm not sorry, and I'm not going to change. That said...there's a good chance this one might distract you from the underlying gray with rather a lot of colorful bits...(it's Everyday DK by ontheround in Silver Lining Tweed...and it is grand). And if you hold tight for just a second while I zip through the stockinette bit, you might spy some actual non-gray yarn. Quite a lot of non-gray yarn come to think of it...(that's ontheround's Everyday Lite in Silver [...]
Up Next
Mitts really are quick. Quick and more fun than they should be. Which is good, because I have a whole lot of them...though somehow that never stops me from wanting more. Oh and don't worry...it does this on the needles, but it behaves perfectly when it's blocked and on your hands! But that just looked too cool to not show you. Pattern for these is coming any second now (think Tuesday...like this upcoming Tuesday). And don't worry, if you bought the matching hat pattern, you'll get an awesome discount on these. I have to see what the possibilities are on [...]
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