Obsession du jour

I need this bag.

in peacock, please.

The knitting prom.

This time every year my knitter confidence gets a total kick in the behind.
Rhinebeck.

Every October, I say that I'm going to go next year, but come September I lose my mojo. I think about who I might go with, come up with nothing and resolve that it's not really the kind of thing I'd like to go to.

Because really:

• I'm not really that good of a knitter.
• I've never made a latvian mitten.
• I don't spin.
• I don't have a sweater to wear.
• I'm not a good photographer.
• I'm not personally friends with any designers, dyers, authors, high profile bloggers.
  
• I don't know how to steek.
  
• I haven't test knit anything for anyone.
• I probably won't jump on the cowl bandwagon.
  

Then, when everyone returns with ridiculous pictures and stories, it's like having your best friends tell you all about the prom that you didn't go to. ugh.

Oh well, I guess there's next year. I need to start working on a date, I guess.

Allstar

Hubby beat his personal best by 4 minutes and came in 5th overall. Allstar.

checking results:

getting awards:

it pays to be old:

One day = one hat

I ran across the pattern for Bounce last week. I've been a little taken with the squishy, beret type hats I've been seeing lately. I had some Malabrigo in the stash and wanted to give this pattern a try. So yesterday I set forth to make this hat. I finished it in about 12 hours (Not total knitting time. There were interruptions).

I LOVE this pattern. You knit the ribbing in the round, then switch to knitting it flat, thereby eliminating the need for magic loop or dpns. Genius! Just a little seaming at the end. Voila!

My incentive was to be able to wear a green hat to Hubby's marathon so that I might be easily seen by him in a crowd. It worked too.