There's been a certain bagladyish-ness to my presentation when I dressed nice in cold weather. Black & neutrals vintage-y herringbone tweed coat, red helmet earflap hat, orange scarf, striped noro blue/purple mitts? yeah. I'd walk in to a job and catch clients rolling their eyes, wondering why they trusted me with their photo shoot budget. OK, maybe I didn't catch them, but I just know they were thinking that. Can't blame them, I looked one crayon short of the 64 pack. Athough with most of the colors.
No longer. I am now, officially, Put Together. This photo Thursday, thanks to Linda at Knit New Haven as I was on the last few cowl rounds, you can see the needles still in there if you look closely enough. Knit from 2 skeins of Cascade Magnum, super bulky, super soft 100% wool. What you're looking at is $36. and not a whole lot of time either. That's a lot of put together bang for the buck, no?
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hat (less than 1 skein of Cascade Magnum, less than 2 hours of knitting)
inspired by Quick & Easy Ribbed Hat by Laurie Kimmelstiel
needles: us 15
my variations: Cascade Magnum is one bulky mother! I cast on 30 stitches, did wider bands of reverse stockinette than of stockinette, added rounds to increase the slouch factor, with a more gradual decrease than written, ending with reverse stockinette on top.
I'm sparing you the modeled views in which I look more like Hassidic Aunt Chaya than fashionably topped.
I love this hat . It is not much of a hair squisher, thanks to the loft, while being very warm Win, win, win.Backstory:
Before the cowl I started a 4x4 ribbed scarf from the yarn. It was almost done when I left it sitting on a chair. Fatal error . My lovable new beast Bobo has a taste for one thing , in a house full to the brim of Stuff You Could Chew. That one thing is wool yarn.
exhibit a of lovability, boy & his dog
He doesn't destroy. It's more like he seeks it, places a whole skein in his mouth and then shakes his bowling-ball sized head, walking and spinning out yarn, down halls and stairs. I've found whole rooms strewn with saliva soaked unwound skeins*. (are you thanking me for that mental image? You're welcome)
Bad news: Bobo's big bulldoggy teeth made an impression on the scarf-in-progress. Good news: it was kind of ropey and roll-y,anyway. So I ripped and knit the cowl.
only thing scarcer than yarn sitting out unscathed these days is a squirrel in the yard,
thanks to this welcoming committee
thanks to this welcoming committee
8 comments:
Oh, I am SOOOO familiar with destoryed yarn this week!
I am living with 8 terriers right now (4 foster JRTs and 4 terriers of my own).
They decided to "play" while I was emptying the dishwasher in the kitchen...$300 of yarn GONE. I had to use shears to cut the dogs out of the mess.
I can send you a picture of the mostly cleaned up scene...but I'm sure you can imagine it!
Not baglady, creative dresser. But now, oh so creative and put together. Can I borrow the dogs to get rid of my squirrels?
pretty cowl and hat! and pretty pups!
Situational creativity - the save of the twist in the cast on is an improvement, for sure, over a straight tube. Nicely done.
I was somewhat tempted by some of that yarn today... but they only had 2 skeins, 1 dusty blue (not a favorite), the other black... I'm doing a black/dark charcoal/gray lopi sweater, so I want a break from black!
Poor bobo!
Does he slobber up finished accessories too, or only WIPs? Now there's an incentive to finish a project...
Love the hat! Love the dog! He is very handsome.
The hat reminds me of this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45199340@N00/3176130441/
I have plain gray yarn and fuzzy gray yarn and was planning on making the bulging parts fuzzy. (Those are technical knitting terms: plain, fuzzy and bulging.) But the super-scale idea that you've done also fabulous.
Hmmmm.
Maybe you are "soft serve vanilla, hold the sprinkle!"
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