Happy New Year! I spent the first week of the new year in LA and at home for a nice, cozy staycation. My first week back at work was busy and here it is another three day weekend already.
I finished a hat made with some yarn I got at Lambtown last October. I don’t think I wrote about Lambtown at the time, but it’s a local fiber festival in Dixon. They have yarn & fiber vendors, a junk/antique section, and 4-H events. They have a barn set up where you can see all sorts of fun breeds of sheep.
This year, to my delight, there were militant vegan protesters out front! When they tried to give me their pamphlet I just looked at them dead-eyed and said, “Sorry, meat is delicious.” Haha. Also, one of them got into a yelling match with one of the cops outside the gate. I did not see said protesters outside when I left around an hour later.
Anyway, so I bought this skein of yarn in basically what is safety orange, haha. It is Color Notes Yarn, which is a husband/wife team out of Antioch. It has a great hand and was a pleasure to knit with. I wanted to make an obnoxiously bright hat and attach one of the faux fur bobbles I ordered from Amazon – mission accomplished!
This is not any pattern from Ravelry or books or anything. I just looked up the XOXO cable online and charted out a hat. I think this would look really cute in hot pink and may make another one. I do, after all, have 11 other fur bobbles in various colors to use. Hah. With Stitches West coming up next month, I may try to get another skein of this yarn as I saw Color Notes will be vending at the show.
Coming up I am almost done with my On the Grass sweater, which had 4 million ends to weave in. I have a few of those left, and it needs to be blocked. It should be done by next weekend.
For my new project, I started Whitehorse by Caitlin Hunter. I love her patterns. I ordered some yarn from Knitpicks to make her Zweig pattern, and will be looking at yarn to make Sunset Highway at Stitches.
On another note, I saw that Ravelry has a new feature where you set goals for the year for your completed projects. I put ten down for this year. I think that’s reasonable. I have a couple of pairs of socks that need to be finished as well as some plans for sweaters and a couple hats. I use Goodreads goal feature for books as well (I try to read one per week, minimum) so I think this feature will be good for me for knitting as well. Since I’m definitely more in the mood to knit this year I think I can accomplish that pretty easily. I read one blog where she knit like 37 pairs of socks last year amongst other things and I was like, dude. I must knit hella slow. But, you know: #goals