Kiss My Knits!

Finished up another one today. This one was on #13 needles, straight garter stitch, using Crystal Palace cotton chenille in bottle green (less yellow/army green than that picture looks) and Plymouth Paradise carried along. I call it my Susquehanna scarf, because it reminds me of the river valley in autumn, with all the blue and autum colors on the blanket of green.

I hope I’m able to visit the ancestral home in Pennsylvania this fall. I miss it.

Okay, so my daughter wanted a hat like the others I’d made, so I had to knit a THIRD hat. But it was fun. She picked out the yarn herself, and here’s the result. This was the best yet, with the crown decreases working out perfectly to make a cool star-like pattern on the top. I cast on 96 stitches using #6 needles to make a more defined stitch pattern.

Here’s my girl modeling it. You’ll have to turn your head sideways, because I don’t feel like opening up Photoshop this morning just to rotate the picture 90 degrees. I like it. All she needs is a little tie-dyed shirt and she’s ready to follow Phish on tour.

As a side note, I have just about enough yarn left over from the other hats to make another hat. I’ll never be free of the roll-brim beanie!

So someone saw me knitting the boob hat and wanted one in similar colors. Being the cheap person that I am, I picked out an all-wool yarn from the same manufacturer in colorway 87 and started knitting. However, as I knit it up, I realized that the outside of the skein was deceptive. All the green was tucked way, way inside the ball. It ain’t purple. It ain’t even close.

So now I’m presented with several options. Finish knitting the hat and give it to her, even though it’s not what she thought she was going to get, finish the hat and find someone else who wants it (unlikely, since all my contact in real life is with a four year old), or unravel it, make something like this for myself, and just suck it up and buy some new yarn for her. Opinions?

So I made this hat out of Noro Silk Garden. I think it looks pretty darn good, and I’m proud because I didn’t follow a pattern, I just made it up myself. But now I have a problem.

See, the yarn store has two skeins of the Silk Garden in slightly different colors that they never marked up the extra buck when the price rose. So now I really want to knit two more hats. Problem is, even without the markup, the yarn is $9.98 a skein! I’ve only got one head; there are only so many hats I need! So unless one of you wants to pony up ten bucks plus shipping for a hat, the yarn will languish on the shelf.

Well, I’ve still got plenty in my stash, anyway. There are worse problems to have. 🙂

P.S. – is it just me, or does this picture make the hat look like a breast? To quote GM Tessima upon seeing the picture: “Wow. I want to give that hat a mammogram.”

I love that Outkast Hey Ya song. I have no clue why, I just do. And I also love Charlie Brown. And someone had the amazing idea to put them together. This video is frickin’ hilarious and made me dance around the room like a total spaz. Wheeeee!!!

http://www.ifilm.com/viralvideo?ifilmid=2534802

We lost cable last night during Angel, right after Wes shot Knox.

Why, God, why?

(As a side note, blue-hair Fred looks totally hot.)

Via Tessima, via pambunny. Set your MP3 player to random and list off the first 20 songs it picks, no exceptions.

‘Heroes’ – David Bowie
Alice Blue Gown – Kate and Anna McGarrigle
I Want a Little Sugar In My Bowl – Nina Simone
Kisses Sweeter than Wine – Peter, Paul, and Mary
We’re All Gonna Die Someday – Kasey Chambers
I Kissed a Girl – Jill Sobule
My Favorite Plum – Suzanne Vega
When You Wish Upon a Star – Leon Redbone
Of These, Hope (Reprise) – Peter Gabriel
Cracking – Suzanne Vega
Mambo Italiano – Rosemary Clooney
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – Judy Garland
Lady Marmalade – Patti Labelle
Foggy Mountain Breakdown – Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
R.S.V.P – Boney James/Rick Braun
Hunted – Cowboy Junkies
Since I Fell For You – the Vince Guaraldi Trio
Cold Tea Blues – Cowboy Junkies
You Can’t Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd – Roger Miller
Which Will – Lucinda Williams

God bless Tessima!

I got a care package in the mail from her today, containing “Diva in the Bath” stuff, and also “Mind and Body PM Moisturizer”.

Possible messages:

A) You deserve to pamper yourself!

B) Even though I only see you once a year, I think you are scaly and smelly and need to do something about it.

I’m pretty sure she means A. Either way, I’m totally psyched! Thank you, Tessima!

Those who know me know that I’m terrible with names. If you were hired as a GM more recently than five years ago, don’t expect me to know who you are. So players, please, please. When you IM me with a wedding question, tell me who you are. Even if your IM name is “I AM FLINDA” don’t expect me to know that you’re Flinda. I honestly won’t, and I’ll have to wrack my brains trying to remember what we might have already talked about, and what this discussion is about.

I’m an old fogey. Don’t make me think. Thank you.

Okay, I followed this pattern pretty closely, and the hat still wound up too small. Its like I’m wearing some kind of stretched out yarmulke in rainbow fish colors. (By the way, it was early in the morning when that picture was taken, so forgive the glazed look.)

So now I get to frog the hat (rip it! rip it!) and re-knit. The only question is: since I have to re-knit anyway, should I go ahead and add some Plume FX and make it glitzy, too? Or will I regret it in the morning? I should mention that I have enough yarn for a matching scarf.

Y’all got an opinion?