The title of this post should be sung to the tune of “Here Comes the Hot Stepper” by Ini Kamoze. It’s what plays in my head now when I’m out in public, since I am now always on the lookout for cute knit hats. It’s like a sickness. I haven’t yet reached the point where I’m zoning out on conversations, but I can tell that it’s only a matter of time. The more hats I knit, the more I want to make.
Sometimes looking isn’t enough, and i have to take pictures. If I can do it unobtrusively, so much the better, but I’m not above explaining that I am a knitter and asking a particularly squirmy person to sit still while I photograph his or her headwear.
I saw this hat on the bus the other day and liked it for a point in the future when I am looking to make a simple project. The woman whose hat it was looked flattered, amused, and slightly creeped out, all at once.
All in all, not bad for something I started after work on Tuesday
For the past few weeks, I’ve been watching Eureka as I knit. I tend to watch comedies (or really mindless dramas) when I’m knitting, because they require less attention on my part. I started a new hat today, and I’m feeling a wee bit victorious, since it’s stranded knitting, a style that I haven’t done before. I was finding it surprisingly easy, and really enjoying how fast this hat was going. I said was, because I ran out of Eureka episodes to watch, and switched to Damages. I spent the first half of the first episode watching intently and knitting on autopilot, and now have been unraveling my work for the next hour. Note to self: serious drama and Fair Isle knitting do not mix.
I read the season arcs/spoilers on the wiki, because I suspected that this show was too mean for me. I’m pretty sure it is. Ever character on that show is vile, and I don’t care enough about them to overlook it. I did see that the 5 most recent episodes of Eureka are available on Hulu, so I will catch up and then watch the remaining episodes there.
I watched this video the first time I made a hat with a pompom. I found these women hilarious and, even better, they taught me how to use my pompom maker, which was sadly lacking in instructions. I watched this video again tonight when I went to make a pompom for a new hat I finished. Perhaps because it wasn’t 2 am and I wasn’t coming off the high of finishing a hat that actually fit my head (as opposed to this monstrosity), I found the video a lot less entertaining this time around. Still, Hatapalooza 2010, or whatever I’m calling this thing, is going pretty well. I may actually finish all the hats I intend to make!
It’s a pity that not everybody agrees with me. Now vampire ridiculousness has infiltrated the world of knitting. I guess I should have known this was coming, what will all the Twilight groups on Ravelry. The sad thing is that I looked through the patterns, and a lot of them are really cute and have nothing to do with vampires! The taint of the Cullens is too strong for me to consider purchasing this, but I might borrow it from the library.
Vogue Knitting Magazine is having a sale on all of their patterns, which is kind of awesome. There are lots of pretty things that I’d love to knit if I had unlimited time and an endless yarn budget. Here are some patterns that I like:
Then there are things that I would have to be already dead to be seen in.
After what seems like years of legal wrangling between Lifetime, The Weinstein Company, and NBC Universal , Project Runway’s first season on Lifetime starts tomorrow. I’m really excited, but aside from briefly looking at the photos and bios of the new contestants, I haven’t tried to find out anything about this season. I want to be surprised, and not to hate any of the contestants until the editors have provided me with a reason. I’m starting a new scarf, so I’ll have something else to focus on if the first episode is as underwhelming as PR season openers usually are.
These Delman shoes are awesome, but I did not buy them! They retail for $195, and were going for $68 (thanks to the always awesome Gilt Group), but I can be honest enough to admit that they were a want, not a need. I’m trying to be strong, but the world is full of lovely things that can be bought! Right now, I’m about to blow over $100 on yarn, but that is always money well spent, and I will definitely use it!
Also, it’s a good thing I finished those booties and gave them to my coworker on Thursday, because his son was born on Friday!
I go away for a few days and WordPress goes and changes everything…including my avatar, which was formerly a photo of my adorable nephew. Weird. I’m still angry with the Mets right now, and do not prefer to have their logo represent me on WordPress.
I haven’t been doing too much lately. Except for knitting. I’ve been doing a lot of knitting. And frogging. I’m never so OCD as when I’m knitting, and then I get this perfectionist streak that is completely at odds with the fact that I still don’t pay as much attention as I should to what I’m making. That’s because I need to watch something when I’m knitting.
Recently, I’ve seen 27 Dresses, Enchanted, Step Up (I’m a bit ashamed about that one), and I started Made of Honor, but I find the pratfalls a bit much and haven’t yet resumed from Dempsey’s second face plant in a single scene. I finished up the third and final season of Veronica Mars, and I’ve now moved on to Cupid, which I just learned is on youtube. How awesome. I remember loving that show, but the details are blurry at this point. I’m pleased that it’s as smart and funny as I remember, and that the wardrobe and hair isn’t so dated as to be a total distraction. I’ve also been really into Chuck lately, and it’s gotten so good that I even watch it before Gossip Girl! Heroes is still stupid, but not as single-mindedly moronic as it was earlier in the season, so I’ve resumed watching it on Monday, instead of allowing several episodes to pile up and then watching them all at once.
I’m about to be single single again (as opposed to mostly single), so that should leave me even more time to 1) make socks and 2) not make any of the Christmas presents I intended to knit.
I cannot believe how quickly summer/autumn happened, and that it will be winter in just a couple of weeks.
I took this week off of work to decompress and just relax, and I told myself that today I would either knit or clean. You’d think that would be an obvious choice, but by 11:30 I still hadn’t done anything, so I made myself lunch and then set to cleaning my room. It took several hours, because my books all feel in love and bred it seems like, but I finally saw FLOOR at 3:45. Then, just for the hell of it, I changed my sheets and comforter. My room is never going to be spotless because 1) I’m neat, but not obsessive and 2) I’ve condensed a large part of an entire apartment’s contents into one room.
So I guess now there’s nothing stopping me from working on that blanket. I think I shall have to tell myself that if I don’t finish another color set on the blanket (probably 16 rows at this point), I will not be allowed to go out and play tomorrow. I may cheat a bit, though, since I’m going to a knitting meetup tomorrow, and it only makes sense to bring my major project along. BUT, I will have to do a needle/yarn inventory first, so that I don’t end up buying something I already own.
January 8, 2011 4:25 pm | 
These Delman shoes are awesome, but I did not buy them! They retail for $195, and were going for $68 (thanks to the always awesome Gilt Group), but I can be honest enough to admit that they were a want, not a need. I’m trying to be strong, but the world is full of lovely things that can be bought! Right now, I’m about to blow over $100 on yarn, but that is always money well spent, and I will definitely use it!
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