The binge knitter

A while ago, I am thinking it must be almost a year ago, I sent a hat to Interweave Knits and was so pleased (to say the least) to find out that it was going to be published in the magazine. I am very delighted to announce that it's been out for a couple of weeks now as part of the Holiday Gifts Issue of 2009 (link to bonus photos). The look that I wanted to achieve was one of spirals traveling from both left and right that merge in one of those neverending twirly patterns you get with spiral art kits that kids can spend hours concentrating on. What are they called? I love the way it was photographed, showing off all that beautiful shapely rib pattern in all its glory. The yarn I used was Rowan Purelife Wool, that was perfect for the job - it's always a little worrying when you are waiting for the yarn to come, and hoping that it'll be close enough to the yarn you were planning for the project - it was soft, yet bouncy enough to carry on the pattern the way it is. Hmmm, I love pure wool!

In other news - last month I put together a Cabled Hat Collection (Ravelry link) which includes 6 hats - see below - that can be purchased on Ravelry if you are a member for time being. I am not going to be adding patterns for sale from my blog anymore as I am hoping to finish working on the website soon-ish from where there will be a separate link to the pattern shop that I think would be more convenient.

And the last but not least: I had a really short haircut, short for me, anyway. Main reason being, that last December I had a great idea of dying my hair bright red. I loved it. But, red as you can imagine was a very hight maintenance colour, it needed to be touched up every month and also my hair needed to be bleached first. Lots of work and don't even start me on what that bleach did to my hair. I was desperate for my brown hair to grow back, it took almost a year and I am all choppy now as my hairdresser was instructed to cut as much of the bleached hair as possible while leaving me with something manageable at the same time, which he did. I have to say that it looks better in real life, as least I think it does, and did I mention that there aren't any greys yet? xxx

This was a last minute project that was started and finished on Friday night, it took more than a minute obviously and being in such a mad rush to finish I (to my horror) discovered that I sewed one of the sleeves the wrong way round and there was no time to fix it unfortunately. The girl was really pleased nevertheless.

Pattern - Simplicity 7113

Brielle is a cabled sock pattern; it includes directions for both circular and double pointed needles and the cables are both charted and have written instructions for your convenience. Knitted using DK or Sport weight yarn these cabled socks work up quickly from cuff down.

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It happens every other month without fail, the month starts with a plan (I love making plans at the beginning of a month - in my head they sound more like 'wouldn't it be nice, yadda, yadda) and then I turn around and the month is nearly over! I bet when I am seventy it'll happen every other year. So, it's the end of September; it was a busy month, with computers braking every few days, waking up to a kitchen full of water and tons of extra school runs. Things started settling though and being fixed (fingers crossed) and in the process I learned that I can plumb a washing machine, the school finally started full time from this week and I am enjoying my first Monday of being able to do things without constantly checking my watch.