Tuesday, September 22, 2009

The Mad Hatter

Because my generous roommate let me borrow his fancy new digital camera, I get to upload the first project on this blog!
hat-in-progress
I've been working on this hat for over two months, at least. I don't remember when I started. Generally, my knitting comes in stages:

Stage 1 - Mid-September: Ah, fall. Maybe I should think about knitting again.
Stage 2 - Mid-October: Ah, crap! Christmas is coming - I have to make some scarves!
Stage 3 - Late October to December 31: knitknitknitknitknitknitknitknitknitknitknitknit...
Stage 4 - January: Ah, Christmas is over. Now I can knit something for myself...after my hands stop hurting.
Stage 5 - February to Mid-September: Ah...knitting? Yeah, I should be doing that...

Rinse and Repeat.

I haven't knit anything for myself since my second knitting project ever. I also have a tendency to lose things. So now I have one hat, one scarf, and two mittens, none of which match (including the mittens!)
This summer I got a half-finished scarf at a yard sale (apparently I'm not the only one who doesn't finish my projects) with lots of extra yarn, quickly completed the scarf, and decided to make a swank hat for myself. Here is the pattern I chose, from this book:patternNice, huh? But A PAIN to knit. It's taken me so long...but this is the week! IT WILL BE FINISHED! mwahahahahaha!

3 comments:

  1. I'm excited! This will be fun thing to follow!

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  2. I really like the staging in your picture!

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  3. Yeah, after I took the picture, I thought, "wow...I want my before picture to look messy and awful, so the after looks way better." But I didn't want to take another picture, so I left it. :)

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