okay, so i finally joined ravelry! it is kind of shaming to see how much yarn i have that i haven't done anything with. and i have only input a small portion of my stash. and that's not even counting fabric and lumber and seeds and everything else. bad, bad, bad.
but!
i am thinking maybe i can unload some things which have been hanging around unused for far too long.
that, or i can actually get to work and get some stuff made. this weekend i pulled out the recycled sari silk i got via a swap (i think? i can't remember even, it was so long ago... all i really remember is that i got it from an individual stash-addict as opposed to a store) and i'm close to half-done a little sweater. so there!
24.3.08
17.3.08
so near and yet so far...
for years i have this vague image in my mind of the ideal man: dashing, squinting into the distance, a lovably rascally look to his curling lip, arms folded across his chest as his scarf blows in the wind, pencil moustache...
moustache?
okay, i have to say i have no love for the stache. except, of course, on clark gable, the sexiest man ever to have lived. well, at least he's near the top of the list.
so when my lovably rascally baby boy started eating his hearing aids regularly, turning him into a dashing aviator seemed the obvious option!
but this would be no average balaclava helmet. this one would have special features for my little guy: mesh over the ears (no point in putting expensive hearing aids on a kid and then covering up the microphones), and a button at the back (out of reach!) to ensure that the hat could be snug enough that he can't take it off, but still put-on-able and get-off-able with a parent's help.
i thought about it how to begin, measured my guy's head, selected my yarn (kroy socks - wooly warm, durable, washable) and began. i should have thought more. the mesha was loosey goosey, the hat was all over the place. i frogged and began again. i got something that looked like it might work, but after a short time on an actual babyhead, got all stretched out of shape and was soon backwards, and the aids were getting chewed once again. then i frogged and ended up working on the wrong sized needles. more frogging.
finally, i thought i had it sorted. i switched to smaller needles for the mesh bits so they weren't so floppy. i ribbed around the hole where his face would go, to have a snug firm edge. finally, it was done! i put it on, and it was snug. really snug. but doable. and maybe it would stretch? or not. i have the perfect hat for a baby the size he was six months ago. yeehaw. so do i frog and start again? or say to hell with it and forget about it until the fall?
meanwhile, i did manage to keep it on his head for one little walk:
the matching mittens he's not so keen on.
moustache?
okay, i have to say i have no love for the stache. except, of course, on clark gable, the sexiest man ever to have lived. well, at least he's near the top of the list.
so when my lovably rascally baby boy started eating his hearing aids regularly, turning him into a dashing aviator seemed the obvious option!
but this would be no average balaclava helmet. this one would have special features for my little guy: mesh over the ears (no point in putting expensive hearing aids on a kid and then covering up the microphones), and a button at the back (out of reach!) to ensure that the hat could be snug enough that he can't take it off, but still put-on-able and get-off-able with a parent's help.
i thought about it how to begin, measured my guy's head, selected my yarn (kroy socks - wooly warm, durable, washable) and began. i should have thought more. the mesha was loosey goosey, the hat was all over the place. i frogged and began again. i got something that looked like it might work, but after a short time on an actual babyhead, got all stretched out of shape and was soon backwards, and the aids were getting chewed once again. then i frogged and ended up working on the wrong sized needles. more frogging.
finally, i thought i had it sorted. i switched to smaller needles for the mesh bits so they weren't so floppy. i ribbed around the hole where his face would go, to have a snug firm edge. finally, it was done! i put it on, and it was snug. really snug. but doable. and maybe it would stretch? or not. i have the perfect hat for a baby the size he was six months ago. yeehaw. so do i frog and start again? or say to hell with it and forget about it until the fall?
meanwhile, i did manage to keep it on his head for one little walk:
the matching mittens he's not so keen on.
9.3.08
almost there
well i can't seem to upload photos today on either of my blogger sites, grr. but, i am just about done something i have been working on for ages. i have knit and frogged and knit and frogged and knit and frogged and i seem to have finally worked the bugs out and am close to finished! it seems almost impossible with the amount of frogging i have been doing, and i can't offer any photographic evidence at the moment, but i swear it is true...
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