The 2nd project in the great Wool Experiment was another hat. I showed you a picture of the colorwork section about half finished last week. Over the weekend, I went into retreat (more on that tomorrow) and finished the hat. I love the hat. It's so unbelievably soft, plushy, and sweet. As soon as I finished it I plunked it on my head and told David he needed to take a picture of me in it.
He then proceeded to go do a load of laundry, come in and start prepping something for dinner, and then tidied up in the kitchen. While I'm not about to interrupt anyone cleaning in my house, I was beginning to get quite warm.
So, David came over and did a little photoshoot and this adorable picture came out of that.
I do love this hat and it will definitely be my "go to" when the weather turns cold (wool, blended with alpaca and angora and then double thickness due to the stranded colorwork=very warm...Fresco yarn is amazing!). I've picked out a pattern to do a cowl in the pinks and green (with buttons, yea!) as well as some mittens in the grey and a darker grey that I had laying around in my small skeins box. The colorwork was fun and interesting...made me concentrate which I don't always have to do while knitting. And the yarn is a simple pleasure to work with.
I will also point out that I make mistakes in my knitting. I don't fret over it. I'm not perfect and the chance that someone will notice that I've made a mistake in my knitting is pretty slim. I got off from time to time in my colorwork pattern. Never more than one stitch, and if the mistake was close by I'd correct it. If not, well, I'd just let it be. The structure wasn't going to be compromised, and the overall pattern has so much going on that you'd really have to look to notice. And I figure if someone is looking that close AND says something, then they just don't understand me and my knitting principles...so there!
With project #2 finished, I promptly cast on Project #3. It's a pair of socks in a thicker wool than I usually use. It's dark green, plump and really wonderful (David says it's scratchy, but he's said that about everything so far). I'll talk about it later this week as I'm still getting to know this yarn (Naturally Perendale).
And for the record, I finished 3 projects this weekend, made HUGE progress on the baby blanket, frogged my very first knitted hat (which was too big and I want to use the yarn for something else, and as fate would have it it's been discontinued), and noticed (in a big way) just how much weight I've lost and how good I'm looking. I realized that the girls favor me quite a lot. Something I hadn't paid attention to because I attributed much of my "shape" to what was evidently weight. This getting to know the new me is going to be a long experience and one that I'm looking forward to seeing all the way through!
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