Wool Love

Thanks to Ken for modeling my latest knitting creation. After 40 minutes of deliberation, Melissa and I picked out Peruvian wool in a shade somewhere between forest green and teal, to knit a hat and scarf set for our manager's birthday. He didn't even know he was so picky!

Thanks to my main male model, the hat is ready on time for Frank's birthday. The scarf, on the other hand, will have to be given as a raincheck... Between two somewhat experienced knitters, you'd think we would have thought to buy extra skeins of wool. Now the store is out, and Melissa had to place a special order.

Pattern: adapted from Kitty Schmidt's Adults-only devil hat
Book: Stitch 'N Bitch The Knitter's Handbook
Yarn: Plymouth Yarn Galway Chunky Pure Peruvian Wool in color 26
Needles: Brittany Needles US 9 dpn in birchwood

Big, fat raindrops turned, this afternoon, into big, fat, semi-solid splats of sleet. Which have now turned, this evening, into wet, fat flakes. Of snow. It's not even October, but those of us who were paying attention saw this coming. Two or three weeks of gorgeous weather, complete with sunshine, followed by winter skies and rain. I, along with many other non-meteorologists, predicted snow before October. We were right. Sigh.

I'm prepared. I went to Inua today and bought yummy wool. Blue Sky Brushed Suri in French Roast, Blue Sky Melange in Cornflower, and Blue Sky Sportweight in Natural Light Tan. I can't wait to start knitting this up into a hat and scarf set for *me*! This is actually a project for me. I plan to wear it on the cover of the 2008 Ester Women's Calendar (I'm Miss August, so I had no chance to wear hand-knit in my photo shoot).