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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!

New header with pipes

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We have the day off today so I thought I’d do some sprucing up around the house and the blog.  I was tired of looking at those fingerless mitts in my header so I changed it for the current project.  It will be felted so those wonky stitches will disappear.

I’m also knitting a swatch to see how it will felt since this is stockinette stitch using two colors.  I like it so far and hope it will felt up nicely.

My son and family will be here for Easter and I need to get the dust bunnies under control.  Before that happens though, the bagpipes need to be shipped to my cousin.

Bagpipes?

Yes.  They were originally my uncle’s pipes, my cousin’s father.  I acquired them after my uncle got married.  I took lessons when I was 15-16 years old and played them in a Scottish drill team as well as in our high school production of Brigadoon.  I was not as dedicated as I should have been so I didn’t practice often.  Like right before my lesson kind of practice.  As with any instrument practice makes perfect.

In 2002 the bag was replaced as the original one had many, many pinholes in it and was not able to be played.  The reeds were also replaced.  I fully intended to pick them back up and relearn to play them again.  My goal was to play Amazing Grace perfectly.  That didn’t happen and it only took me 10 years to realize it was never going to happen.  I still hate to practice.  Plus Mr. Aitch is not a fan of bagpipes.

So my cousin has graciously decided to take them off my hands.  I hope she and her family learn to play and love them.

Now where are those dust bunny traps?