Thanks to Ravelry.. my queue is full for the next eighty years when it comes to knitted objects. This is a portion of the Fake Isle hat that I started last Thursday with some stash Noro Silk Garden and Caron Simply Soft in preparation for knitting the “We Call them Pirates” hat from Hello Yarn. Now that I realized that I’ve been going about charts entirely wrong.. they’re getting much easier to deal with. I never realized that I could just put in stitch markers every pattern repeat and in this case.. that means I would only be dealing with 12 stitches at a time instead of the entire 96 of the hat. Duh. This “two color knitting” stuff? Easy peasy once I let go of my death grip on the yarn.
I’m currently about 1/3rd of the way through the second chart where the decreases of the hat occur.. and so far it fits. It is admittedly a bit snug but I’m hoping that its because the hat is still on the needles and not because I’ve completely farted up the gauge of the hat to the point where I have to give it away to someone with a smaller melon. I’m hoping to finish up the hat in the next week and get back to my Lochshal scarf which is spending some solitary time in the knitting bag. Eventually I will tame the start-itis which is spreading…
On the mommy front.. holy shit my kid starts school in 12 days! I am pretty sure that the entire summer went by while I wasn’t paying attention… though I may have just blocked out the three months of “mommy, I’m BOOOOOORED” that actually occurred during this time. I’m on the search for a decently made pair of sneakers without movie/cartoon characters on them that won’t cause me to have to sell a kidney in order to purchase them. Currently my choices seem limited to Target & Payless.. any other suggestions? Thankfully I’ve purchased the dreaded school list of supplies from various dollar sales and managed to escape with my organs intact this year… I even managed to squeeze the money out for a new backpack (with WHEEELS! oooooh….) and some supplies for home so that we aren’t running around the house looking for markers and glue sticks when homework starts.
I haven’t taken full inventory of Munchkin’s closet yet.. but I’m sure that he has well enough clothing to start the year and make it until the seasons change. I’m blessed to have a young child who hasn’t gotten the concept of brand name clothing - I’m hoping that our families lack of labeled clothes or flashy items will keep the designer monster at bay.