Nothing at all to do with knitting, but you so rarely see caution tape around toilets (except at my brother's apartment) that I found this scene to be hilarious. I didn't stop to think what the other people using the bathroom might think of a camera flash, but whatever. It was a scene to be captured.
My college roommate, Merrie, is visiting from Michigan, and we had a great time exploring the gorge. The above photo was taken at the Multnomah Falls Lodge, where we stopped to have lunch and look at the waterfall.
To make it knitting-relevant, you can see that I'm wearing My So-Called Scarf in Manos del Uruguay yarn, made for me by Julia. It's one of my favorites, and it matches my brown and orange raincoat perfectly. There...finished object at the Gorge.
We came back to Portland via Washington State, and stopped at the Pendleton Woolen Mills in Camas, WA. I've mentioned before that nothing at Pendleton comes in sleeves that are long enough to cover my wrists, but I was wrong. I was SO wrong. Pendleton carries, at least at its outlet stores, "special sizes" that include tall. And not just slightly tall. Get this:
The sleeves were too long.
That's crazy talk.
No, I didn't buy any new clothes, since I don't really need anything. (I did buy two yards of fabric for a spring skirt, because I'm that optimistic that Spring will come sooner rather than later. But at $3 per yard, how could I resist? That's Fabric World prices for Pendleton fabric! Again with the crazy talk!)
So....finished objects. To go with Monday's post about the stenciled onesies, I'll share with you the hats I made for the baby-to-be and her older sister. I made them in early-January -- OK ok -- I knit them at a faculty meeting -- and so they're posed on my usual campus shrub but it's covered in snow. They're both made from Cascade Sierra Cotton on #8 US needles, using Barbara Walker's "Hexagons" pattern and a flattened top. The knit flowers are a variation of the one in Stitch-n-Bitch Nation,
and by "variation", I mean that I misread the pattern 4 times, and on the 5th flower realized I'd done the 4 previous flowers incorrectly, but decided they looked fine. (The blue flower is the only one made according to the pattern as written. Can you tell the difference? No? I can't either.) The larger hat is 18 inches, the smaller is 16 inches.
The pattern? I'm working on it. Soon, I promise...partly because I want a cool cotton hat for myself, and the one that will be on Magknits.com looks silly on me.
1 comment:
Nice touch, using the snow as background.
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