Almost February

We survived the great “snowzilla” snowstorm here in Maryland. Our area was in the bullseye of the storm and we got more than 36 inches of snow. We needed to shovel our way out of the house on the back deck, but our front steps were miraculously clear.

Below is the hat I knit while it was snowing last weekend. This is the second one I’ve done, and I’ve got enough yarn packed in my suitcase to do a couple of more while I am sitting by the pool, as tomorrow we are off on our yearly trip to Hawaii, and I am ready for some sun and warm weather. Lots of knitting will be done.

Baa-ble Hat- free pattern

Flying

I probably am the most irritable airline passenger ever. Whistling on tiny plane is like torture to me. Don’t other people have any sense of what lies beyond the border of their own bodies? I don’t want to hear anyone whistling. I don’t want to hear a blow by blow discussion of a movie. I don’t want to hear the guy behind me talking loudly on the phone (when it should have already been turned off) about wether or not he would be guest lecturing again at Harvard. 

On the plus side, I am on an Embraer 145 a very small jet, that seems to instantly arrive at its cruising altitude, I am sitting in seat 1A, a lone and solitary seat. And there is this beautiful view. Plus, I should be home in an hour…very short flight.

Times have changed.

I saw this small bag pattern on Pinterest,

and was hoping I would find a tutorial, but there was none, just a pattern to buy and not a downloadable pattern, but a printed pattern, so I ordered it.

When it came on Saturday, I was quite disappointed in what I received. Basically it was a one page booklet with a few measurements, and some written instructions. It was written in 2010, and in the six years since then, I think expectations of what a pattern should include have changed. I won’t buy another pattern I can’t download. Period. I also expect that there be some tutorial with photos, since many folks (me included) are visual learners. I will use the pattern nonetheless and post the output when i am done.

Ugly reimagined

O over dyed the ugly in the previous post (bottom photo) with a rich chocolate brown. I love how it turned out.

2016

I am a little late to the party for New Year’s Resolutions, but I have made some progress on my number 1 goal…finish UFO’s. So far I have frogged two projects completely, reskeined, and soaked so one bunch can be used again as is, and the other needs overdyeing because it was really awful knitted up in stockinette!

I am keeping this one. It’s hand dyed by me, DK weight and a merino, cashmere blend.

This one is going to be over dyed, as I think it is so very ugly.