When I get stressed and overwhelmed, I knit. I knit A LOT. This pattern (thermis) was bought before we left for our trip to Florida.. something simple and mindless to knit while on vacation or in the car during the 7 hour drive but it never saw the outside of my knitting bag for the whole trip.  Instead I cast on for it on Friday night in the midst of a total freak out with a partial ball of LB Wool-Ease and size 6 circs… this morning at 9am, I had this:

I didn’t do any mods to the pattern except for the occasional bungle of the stitch count (I’m going to say it makes the whole thing more ‘organic’.. go with me on this, k?)  and I knit the “small” size.   Unfortunately I have to wear the cowl like this :

I don’t know.. it might be an improvement.. or I might be wearing it wrong.  Wearing it like this  DOES however make me feel better about my impending move (utter denial- I haz it) AND keeps me warm since its suddenly THIRTY FIVE FREAKING DEGREES at night here in Georgia (really? seriously? Just push the crazy girl in the heatless house over the edge already would you?) which is totally unheard of in mid-October.  I keep hearing that we’re going to have a horribly cold winter this year..  the possibility of living in a  house with heat is the only thing that’s keeping me motivated about moving.

If anyone needs me… I’ll be in my cowl.