Today was a great day for knitting. You know those days where its drizzling outside and cloudy. The kind where you don't want to go outside, even to get the mail. The kind that you don't want to do anything but curl up under the covers or in that special nook with a cup of tea or hot chocolate or whatever your fancy with a bit of music playing in the background and knit. Yeah today was one of those glorious days, too bad I didn't do any knitting. I don't know what happened to me. I really can't say what exactly I did in place of knitting today. I did get all three meals in but other than that nothing much is coming to mind.
I finished knitting my mother's sock monkey hat, two down, two to go. I still have to weave the ends in but I've really been putting that off, guess I'll try to get that done tonight before the hubby gets home. Yesterday my aunt, the one that's trying her hand at lace with me, called asking how I hold my needles. So I had to grab out something, anything to play with while I was on the phone with her. Well what did I pull out? It was a scarf I started a while back, just a simple garter stitch scarf. I was watching a Knitty Gritty episode last whenever and they were knitting with two different yarns together and I so badly wanted to try it. The outcome my something, anything pink scarf, which by the way has somehow gotten holes in it. Yep I missed a stitch and now there's a hole staring at me quite a few inches back. I should really frog it shouldn't I? Oh but I don't want to, I just don't see myself wearing it. It was really just an experiment. I don't know, I do know I really want it finished. It's been sitting in my yarn drawer for oh so long, it's time it moved on to my never wear it drawer.
I know you all are just dying to know what's my next on the needles project. Well since my sister really needs some great hats to show off her sister's knitting skills, however not so great they may be, I've seen those oh so cute dinosaur hats that those oh so cute little boys are wearing. Yep that's it, I'm going to attempt to make a green hat with those pointy things(what are those pointy things called, not scales) going down the middle of the back. I'm sure she's gonna love it. Well until next time happy knitting....
I’m generally not a fan of the, as I like to call it, fuzzy yarns. You know the ones. They all have that this extra fringe sticking out everywhere but this yarn isn’t quite as bad as some. Actually the pics make it look worse than it is and besides it really makes this hat look funny. Not quite as sock monkeyish as the original but funny none the less. I also grabbed some more yarn to get two more done for my aunts. One of theirs will have a blue top and pom pom the other a green. I know, I know, so not sock monkey but hey I didn’t want them all exactly alike and besides I think I lost the sock monkey look, as mentioned before, with the glittery, fuzzy yarn.
It’s 2 by 2 block in a checkered pattern, just like the last one I posted. I actually wanted to do a 3 by 3 (like a tic-tac-toe board) but I had the material cut for this so this is how it was done. It’s backed in a white flannel instead of the chenille that the other was done in. I like the chenille, ok I love the look of the chenille, but I really like how much thinner this blanket is. It has the same batting and such to it so I’m sure it’ll be just as warm it just isn’t as poofy as the other. I am definitely liking this one too.
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