I’ve always had a head full of thick, curly, crazy, unmanageable hair. Some may say lovely, but I say *&??&%*??$#% A couple years ago, I sat in a salon chair for over 5 hours to have it straightened and I had 3 stylists (I kid you not) painstakingly working what smelled like a combination of bleach and chlorine and rotten apples into my hair to make it all glossy and straight. I walked out of the salon that day a great… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Hats
Sky Shifts
Goodbye summer… Hello fall! Yesterday, we had a plans of going on a post-dinner walk with the kids to celebrate the Autumn Equinox. Hmm, that didn’t happen. But we will do it one of these evenings just to see how different things look and feel now that crisp autumn days are ahead – cool and sunny at the same time. We can feel the shift already as the summer weary sun dips below the horizon earlier and earlier each evening… Read more »
Seeking Blue
“Buscando Azul” – Seeking Blue. I don’t know much Spanish but that’s what the online translator said and it’s a perfect name for this hat. Yet again, I’m smitten by the gorgeous-ness of Malabrigo this time in it’s chunky form. The yarn and the color – love, love, love. The pattern for this Chunky Dean Street Hat…well, I’m not so crazy about it. I think it must be the way the decreases turn out on the top of the hat. … Read more »
Aloutte Swirls
I can’t believe that I finished the Hurricane Hat in 4 days!!! For me, this is a HUGE achievement given that knitting minutes in my day are few and far between. On each round, the placement of purls effectively creates a whirlwind swirly pattern. This simple combination of putting knits and purls together to create something so lovely is what makes me want to keep going back to knitting. The bits of blue on the forest green of this yarn reminded… Read more »
Can’t think of a half-interesting title
I’m having blog post title brain freeze here. The sock is growing steadily and I’m on the foot – I never thought that I would ever knit a sock and now that I can, I am beginning to understand what all the rage about sock knitting is. My favorite part was the heel and then turning the heel – loved it!!!! (I’m too lazy to haul out the camera for progress shots and so that will have to be for… Read more »
There was Christmas knitting
Due to Christmas knitting being synonymous with deadlines, I tend to stay away from it each year. But this past Christmas, there were a couple handknit gifts – definitely a first for me. I blogged about one in December and it was received in typical baby fashion – squeals of delight tearing through the wrapping paper and then chomp, chomp, chomp on the contents of the package and then back to shredding the wrapping paper. I did manage to get a… Read more »
