I Was Wrong

This is the view that suddenly appeared yesterday, after the rain switched to snow. The snow fell like it was January for hours, continuing overnight.

This morning, it was a blanket of snow. It was like looking at a postcard of a beautiful Christmas scene, set in a quiet, rural neighbourhood with the pine trees frosted just so in snow icing.

Sigh.

Anyway, I have a a few projects to show. First, my biggest, made on a whim after frogging the Boogie Vest that I made for my mother a while ago. Yes, it was a nice vest, but in the end it was just too bulky. So, I remembered a capelet in the book Hip Graphic Knits that had an aztec pattern, and decided to rewrite it for bulky yarn. I used Bernat Softee Chunky, and the darker colour is Bernat Solo in Rustic:

I adjusted how many stitches cast on, but I didn’t change anything about the length, except that the ribbing at the bottom is a little more than an inch, and the top isn’t the full however-many-inches. I think it’d be too short if done with the called-for worsted weight yarn, but maybe not. I used size 10US needles for the whole thing.

My hair’s doing that thing where it decides to flip out halfway down on one side, but not on the other. It resists all attempts to be corrected. If I part my hair on the other side, then I get the flip there. Parting in the middle doesn’t help. I think I’ll stay away from the layers next time I get my hair cut.

I also did two amis in the meantime:

This one is the Crochet Amigurumi Owl, which is a cute and quick pattern.

Next is the Knitted Bunny, but when I had it almost finished, I didn’t like the look of the knit fabric. It might be the yarn I used (same taupe as for the capelet, and thus, a bulky) so I redid it in crochet. This was not a hard mod, as all you do is make a 6″ by 6″ square, and the rest is done with clever sewing and stuffing.