Finishing the Hat Month

How was Finishing the Hat Fortnight, you ask?

• A Small Hat of Vegetable Origin was completed. It fit (just). It was given for a Birthday. I am Pleased.
• I saved thousands of dollars bought more yarn.
• I started a scarf for meee!
• I still have a project on the needles that must be completed in the next two weeks, and a matching one that is still just a twinkle in my eye that also must be completed by then.
• I have a strong desire to abandon those projects because they are boring and slow, but I'm not supposed to buy any more yarn and I can't think of anything appropriate.
  
• I still want more yarn, even though my stash has developed its own bylaws and belief system.
  

Life Lessons

Just saw this in someone's signature on DeviantArt:
"Life is like a ball of wool, it starts fine is messy in the middle and ends up fine again."

Whoever said that never turned two skeins of Misti Alpacas Pima Cotton/Silk (#440, Papaya) into an effing mess. It's lovely yarn, beautiful sheen, soft to the touch, and I turned it into Cynthia McKinney by being too shy to ask the nice lady at Imagiknit to show me how to wind the yarn winder thing. I just took it home and tried to knit with it. Lesson. Learned.

Also in knitting news, I just knitted a hat for someone. Someone with a small head. I did knit a gauge swatch, I swear, but I didn't put much effort into it and then unraveled it so I could use it for the Small Hat. Which ended up a Gynormous Hat. Lesson. Learned.

Also, if you have ten hours of work to complete by the end of the weekend, don't spend three hours completing and seaming a Hat you already know to be Gynormous, or you will end up spending Sunday evaluating porn sites instead of sipping coffee while reading the Sunday Times and listening to Nina Simone. Lesson. Learned.