Monthly Archives: April 2012

The CCM hat decision

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Remember a few weeks ago when I finished my Carrie Cahill-Mulligan hat?

Well, I finally decided what I was going to do with the brim.

Paisley.  I love paisley and found some generic paisley shapes to use as my inspiration.  My plan is to embroider eight paisley designs around the entire brim but I’m going to start at the front and work my way around from side to side so I don’t have to have it completely finished before wearing it.

Yes, I know it’s April and we’ve had some unseasonably warm weather of late (90 degrees yesterday!!) but I don’t want to wait until next fall before I return to find it still naked of all embellishment.

I love this hat.

And you can have your very own!

It’s easy.

Go to Carrie’s website and:

  1. Order a kit.  Or two.  Or three.  You get to select the colors of yarn you want.
  2. Buy a gift certificate for a kit or a hat for a dear friend, your spouse, yourself, or anyone.
  3. Buy a hat.

I know that Carrie and Andy, her husband, would really appreciate it right now.  Go on, check it out.

Have you read it yet?

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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

Mr. Aitch got the e-book version for his tablet a few weeks ago.  I borrowed his tablet, started reading the book on Tuesday and finished it today. 

Wow.

Some reviews were not favorable but I enjoyed the book.  I’m looking forward to the second book in the series called Catching Fire.

Now that that is out of the way, I can concentrate on the iPad cover.    Since I’m doing a stockinette stitch and a two-color houndstooth design on this one instead of one color and the garter stitch, I thought I should felt another swatch.  The swatch is finished and felted.  I just have to make sure the two-color knitting it very loose on the back so the stitches don’t pull too close together while being felted.  I may decide to knit a couple of stitches along the sides for a small gusset to make it a little wider just in case my knitting is too tight.

I think the houndstooth pattern will show up nicely once it’s finished.

Surprise package

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A few weeks ago I commented on Wool and Chocolate’s blog about not ever having seen, felt, smelled, or touched Malabrigo yarns.  Much to my dismay, my local yarn shop (LYS) does not carry it.  Mrs. Woolandchocolate sent me a message back saying she would see what she could do about that.

Do I know this lovely woman personally?  No.  Only through the blogging world.  In fact she lives on the opposite side of the continent.

Yesterday when I got home from work, I was greeted with this package.

 

Malabrigo worsted in Velvet Grapes.  My photo does not do this justice.  The colors are beautiful and more varied.  The yarn is squishy, soft, and smells great!

Thank you Shelly!  Knitters are the BEST!