CrafTBQ

I finally got off my butt and uploaded pictures of my first finished BGAL project. You can see pics of the ribbed scarf I made over in the BGAL blog.

Yesterday I made it to my LYS in record time, given that I found out at the last minute that they close a half hour earlier on Fridays during the summer.  I bought the yarn I needed, bought a nifty little toy that I’ll post more about if it works, and treated myself to size 2 DPNs because those have come up often enough on patterns I’m interested in trying (*cough*socks*cough*) that I knew I’d get around to needing them eventually.

Thus armed with materials, I was prepared to finish off my hat this weekend.

Only problem? I don’t have the DPNs I need.  When I checked my supplies it turns out I somehow, in the past year, managed to buy three sets of 7s and no sets of 6s.

Wah!

And my LYS is closed on Sundays and Mondays, and won’t be open late until Wednesday.  Which means either I go to Michael’s, which I might not have time or energy to do tomorrow (plus I have no idea if they’d have size 6 DPNs) or I have to put my hat on hold for a few days and start up another project to take with me to SnB on Tuesday.

I MUST DELAY THE JOY OF HAT CLOSURE FOR DAYS!! SUCH IS THE HORROR OF MY LIFE! WOE, WOE I TELL YOU!

Clearly I need to get off my butt and start using the needle inventory section in my knitting journal.

Harumph.

I decided to frog the hat I’ve been working on because I just did not feel confident about the ribbing being strong enough to stay on my, or anyone’s head.

I recast with the same number of stitches but switched to 5s for the ribbing and 6s for the body of the hat.  I’m still not sure it’ll fit on my head but I do believe it’ll fit on someone’s now. 

It’s not quite done yet, but there’s an outside chance I’ll have it done by the end of this weekend.  (And of course by saying so I have guaranteed that will not happen.)

I’ve finished my first BGAL project. Rather, I have my first BGAL project which is finished. It is not the first BGAL project that I started.  I have pictures of it that I will post here and to BGAL once I get them on my computer.

Finally, this week saw the very first SnB in my hometown. I dare not say much for fear I will make it vanish, but suffice it to say that within minutes of meeting we were snarking on the snotty owner of one of the local yarn stores, so I knew I was amongst my people.