Tuesday, July 14, 2009

I love quick hits

I didn't win the contest. So sad.


However, nothing picks me up like a quick FO, even if its just a baby hat! My third Baby Cables hat!





A friend who has a baby boy who looks dangerously like Adam Lambert is the recipient of this hat. I need to come up with a baby hat pattern of my own that I can make and sell. I started this one on Sunday afternoon and finished it Monday night. I showed it to Erm this morning, his reaction was "you finished that already?". Ahhhh...


And my longer term project is a shawl for me. I bought this yarn awhile ago, its one of the only yarns I've ever bought with no idea for what I'd do with it, just because I loved it. I thought it looked like a dead squirrel, Erm thought it looked like potatoes. Anyway... I went nuts looking for a shawl to knit with it and came up with this pattern... I can't remember where it is to link it, but it strikes me as pretty basic. Funny coincidence, now that its knitting up, I think a friend of mine has this shawl someone knit for her in a greenish/blueish/brownish yarn. Mine is just brown. I'm SUPER excited, as this pattern is easy and I can tell this shawl is going to be the right balance of warm and not too warm and go with a lot of my fall clothes, because I wear a lot of browns.



I think I finally found the perfect pattern for this yarn!

2 comments:

Wanderingcatstudio said...

That yarn does look like a dead squirrel!
It looks lovely in the shawl, and the baby hat is so cute

Knittymuggins said...

What a sweet little baby hat! I love instant gratification knits :) Can't wait to see your shawl!

knittymuggins