Note to Self

If, in the future, you decide to knit any pattern that has the word "fade" in it, just buy the kit from Kitterly  You do not have the color skills that you think you do.

Notice the SUBTLE fade in this example.  

Free Your Fade by Andrea Mowry

But yours?

No subtlety.  



Just buy the kit.

Made It! Sort of...

The hat is finished and is almost dry.  I made it with .3 oz to spare!

However, the hat seems very skimpy to me; it's only 7" tall. I've already ordered more yarn, two skeins this time, and I'll make the second hat with 4" of brim, and I'll make the large size, or the s/m size with one size larger needles.  Haven't decided yet.

Knitting, at least mine, is not a precise science.  That's why I tend to make sweaters that don't fit the original intended recipient. But maybe I should have taken a hint from the name of the pattern:  Ribs 'n Cables BEANIE.  Not Ribs 'n Cables HAT.

Stereotype, that's my blog!

Apparently.

Because it's mostly about knitting i.e. "Stories about crap somebody cooked, knitted, or sewed."  

Well, sorry about that. That's all I got.


Onward:

I am currently playing yarn chicken with this hat:

Absolutely everything I have read on Ravelry about this hat assures me that I will not run out of yarn, and my digital scale tells me that I have enough, but I am really, really not so sure.  

This is the designer's photo of the finished hat:

I love it and I hope I have enough yarn because if I don't, I have to mail order more yarn, and WAIT for it to arrive, and as my family can tell you, I am an immediate gratification kind of gal.  If I do have enough yarn, the hat will be finished TODAY and that's my kind of timing.  However, this .8 oz of yarn is all I have left.

So if I've run out of yarn, maybe my next post will be about crap I've cooked because my poor Instant Pot is feeling neglected.  

  

How Could I Resist?

Look at this beautiful bottle of wine—-in my signature color! Is the wine any good? No idea. Loved the bottle.