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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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

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\nThis 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

For my new project, I started Whitehorse<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n