Snuggly, until it gets prickly (or, well, itchy), just like Frannie. Day 128.
January 5th, 2011 § 1 Comment
I went to the library this afternoon to do some research for a project. Wait let me re-phrase. I went to the library today to *try* to do some research for a project. I love the library, I do, but they did not have one single book in the entire system—not just the branch I was in—on the topic I am trying to research. How? Why? Does not compute.
Feeling a little down, I returned home, and finished the second Taylor Swift hat, which I had started this morning. The red one was a “large” and this blue one is a “small.” I found a few (4) errors in the pattern, so now both the pdf, blog and ravelry.com page are all updated. I hope this hasn’t lead to any frustration, unlike my trip to the biblioteca. Lame.
I have also learned that I need to take picture in the morning in the mirror, not at night, as I look like the ice queen.
Knitting the hat for the second time took SURPRISINGLY less time than the first. Big needles, big yarn = 1 day project. Who knew? The first time around it took a week, but there was a lot of figuring out to do. I wore it out when we went to the Mexican place for dinner, and it is super snuggly, but I actually prefer the red wool hat, which is Superwash Wool, and not itchy, as opposed to the Mirasol Sulka which is 60% Merino Wool, 20% Alpaca & 20% Silk. Even though it feels like my mom’s kitten, Frantic Frannie, it actually got a bit itchy by the end of dinner. Not what I expected.
Working the smaller size went well though, and I think that it is a bit better size for me than the large. I have a small yead, but my brains are mighty—granted not as mighty as my Mensa sister, but, you know.
Despite the library’s terrible shortcomings today, I did fine a book about Audrey Hepburn in the “bestsellers” section, that I am going to try to give a go. I still have Ramon’s sweater to finish, but I have a bunch of calculations to do for the pattern for the sleeve, and I am just not sure that tonight is the night.
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