LSB In Odessa

Finished Odessa yesterday - yay! I tried to take a picture of myself in the hat, but all of the shots came out badly. It's amazing how hard it is to take a picture of yourself in a hat. So instead, we have Little Sweet Bunny modeling.


Here he is in the hat.

And he wanted a funny one for his MySpace page.

Here's the top of the hat; I really like how the swirl came out. I really liked this pattern - I ended up doing it just as the directions specified and it came out great. It's a deep hat though, because I had trouble measuring the length (the stitch pattern makes it sort of ribbed when laid flat), so I've been experimenting with cute ways to have my hair poke out.

I took a trip to Sheep's Clothing today (that's right kids. Morehouse is my LYS) to get a circular needle for Shedir, which I cast on while still in the store. I like going there a lot because they've got a whole area in the back where you can sit and knit and look at books and stuff. It's like the Beadissimo of yarn stores. The hat is coming along nicely; I burned through the ribbing and now I'm learning to cable without a cable needle, which is really handy with so many little crossings. Picking up a cable needle for each one would really slow things down. It's messing with my tension a little bit though. I need more practice and I'm definitely going to need to block this hat, so I'll have to strategize how best to do that.

And now, back to my writing exercises. I keep telling myself it's like I'm swatching.