wip wednesday: pearlescent

Pearlescent on Ravelry

Since it's a little hot to be knitting sweater these days (though that doesn't stop me, we have an air conditioner that I can sit in front of), I've moved into jewelry making.  This will actually be my second attempt at this necklace because I didn't like how it turned out the first time.

wip wednesday: sea green bias

Sea Green Bias on Ravely

This summer shawl has a sad back story: I started it a couple weeks ago as a birthday gift, but I'm not really talking to the person I was making it for anymore.  Hopefully by the time her birthday rolls around in July we'll be speaking again, but I'm not going to put the time and effort into knitting a shawl for someone who so easily flits in and out of my life.

I guess the positive side of the story is that now I'm knitting the shawl for my own birthday.  When I started it I knew I'd have a hard time giving it up, and now I don't have to.

bad haircut hat

 Bad Haircut Hat on Ravelry

This is the finished Bad Haircut Hat that I very briefly mentioned way back at the beginning of February!  I bought the Skinner Hat pattern (along with a couple others) when there was a 25% of sale, and I'm very glad I did.  The pattern and finished hat are great.

I made this goofy set of pictures to put up on Facebook after I had a good cry over the haircut.  It wasn't a bad cut on its own, it was just exactly the opposite of what I wanted.  I still don't like how my hair looks but I'm even more terrified of getting it cut than I was before.  It's hair, it grows, I'll live!
 

When I first bought this yarn I had meant to make another Veranda Tam with it, but after I cast on for the brim of the tam I realized what a perfect peacock blue this is and went on a mad search for the perfect peacock feather hat.  It was a tall order and I agonized for a while over patterns, even passing the Skinner Hat over in my first sweep of Ravelry.  It must have been meant to be since the pattern was even on sale when I finally bought it.

 

In the end I think I still lost this round (not liking the haircut months and months later) but at least I have a nice hat to show for it.

tough femme

 

Tough Femme on Ravelry

This is the finished Tough Femme Scarf that I was knitting back in February as a birthday present.  It was pretty perfect: plain but still interesting to knit while watching a show, and the Berroco Vintage is soft and comfortable.  I cast on 44 stitches on size 7 needles and knit until the scarf was just over six feet long.

This is the only picture I have of the birthday girl and her present (we went out for BBQ to celebrate [I went back to vegetarianism shortly after this!]); dark and blurry but I think you can still tell what a good match they make.  Unfortunately none of these pictures are particularly true to color.  They yarn is a lovely ruby red.

This was my favorite thing to do with the scarf before giving it away.  Squishy scarf roll!

bea

 

Bea on Ravelry

Well, I seem to have dropped the ball again!  It's so, so hard to look at these pictures of wooly warm things when the weather has been so nice, but I like cataloging my knitwear on the ol' blog, and I have a bit of back-log to keep things going.

I never posted these pictures of the Bea Headband I started way back when because I always meant to take "better" pictures.  That never happened, and it's a bit warm for it now.  I don't often wear headbands but I like having this one around.  It has a really fun vintage headscarf vibe that I like.

Hopefully I'll be able to keep up with the blog, especially as I have some summer knitting/projects in the works.