A faaaaabulous funky hat!

Yesterday I cast on the first stitches for my new Funky Hat, and believe it or not, I finished it the same day! Here are the photos: (Note the pom-pom.  It is imperative that every Funky Hat have a pom-pom. ) I like it!  I admit cheerfully that the cable I put in (barely visible in [...]
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Sock blank

Mike’s uncle lives way out in the country, well out of coverage range for my wireless provider, and doesn’t have Internet access, so I’ve only been able to access the Web on my iPhone during our trips into town. As a result I’m woefully behind on reading email, so if you’ve sent me anything recently, [...]
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Let's talk socks.

Our vacation in North Carolina (Asheville area) is approaching fast, and try as I may, I haven’t been able to think up anything dress-related to bring with me, especially since my laptop is dead.  So, I will have to fall back to my old standby: socks! Towards this, I offer this photo: The yarn is Mini Mochi, [...]
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Contrast between knitted blanks

I dyed the second half of the knitted blank yesterday, and wove up part of it on my lunch hour.  This one I did not do in regular stripes, instead I did it in blobs of color. The intent was to provide more organic shapes than straight lines.  The first blank, which you may recall looked [...]
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Funky hat

When I arrived in Maryland, it was in the high thirties or low forties and windy as we came out of the airport.  Within seconds, my ears were freezing. So, of course, I decided to think warm thoughts.  A hat!  A hat would be just the thing to keep my ears from freezing off when we [...]
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