ok, so i really do knit

Yes, I’ve been very slack with the knitting content… ok, ANY content, but especially knitting, since the holidays.  But it’s true;  I really do still play with  yarn.  Here’s some proof:

This is a terrible picture, but it’s the Simple Twist hat, done in Wool-Ease Chunky, for my friend Woody.

Once that was done, I decided it was high time I knit myself a hat;  I haven’t done that since I first learned how to knit in 2002.  I had yarn that I bought specifically for such a project at the Common Ground Fair in Unity, and I chose Cosette’s Train Tam pattern to go with it.  It’s not quite done;  I plan to embroider the side and accent it with some antique mother-of-pearl buttons, but I’m traveling at the moment and don’t have the supplies with me, so I’m wearing it as is for now.

So yes, I’m traveling again.  I hit the road on the 12th and drove to Ithaca.  Then I left there on the 14th and drove on to Ann Arbor, Michigan.  Yesterday I left Michigan and drove back to Ithaca, getting here just in time for my friend Mel’s baby shower.  While I was in MI, my car ended up in the shop… for the whole week.  Sigh.  So, being stuck in the house all week, and knowing I had this shower coming up, I put my time to good use and made this:

It is, of course, Kate.  And Mel loves her. 

So what’s on the needles now?  February Lady, of course.  I’m off to a very, very slow start;  I’ve actually started it 3 times now, because I can’t get the raglan increases to look the way I want them to.  I’m now doing them as eyelets – yarn-overs – and I’m a little concerned that it’s going to throw off the fit, but I guess I’ll find out, won’t I?

~ by Casey on 22 February 2009.