Okay, both of these totally made me laugh!

WIP Wednesday - aka the Hedwig Memorial Society in the HPKCHC group on Ravelry. As I have a giant pile of WIPs, I picked out my Swiss Cheese scarf (which isn't made using the actual Swiss Cheese pattern, but if you want one similar, the Swiss Cheese pattern [Ravelry link] will work for you).

Yes, I had the wrong calendar up the last three years.

This is the first time in three years that my Sheep Incognito calendar will actually be up during the correct year!!


Hooray!!

Transsiberian Hat

So, another hat I tried was the Transsiberian Hat, a lovely free cabled hat pattern found on MadtownMammaKnits's blog (and it's also on Ravelry). I really like the way it turned out, so score another hat for Project Frontlines!

Really, I mean it this time!

Okay, seriously, it's time to get back to blogging. Especially since I now work at a knitting store part-time! I have lots of yarn to talk about, and projects, and....

... well, let's start with how I ended 2014. For a lot of reasons, it's a year I didn't mind seeing in the rear-view mirrors, but I did get some good knitting done.

To wit, the store is doing a giant knitalong/crochet-along/hat-along for Project Frontlines. The goal is to have 250 hats made by July 1, 2015, and we're already 10% of the way there! I've been using yarn that lost its original purpose from my stash, or charity/donated yarn from the shop, and just going to town. It's been a chance to try a lot of fun hat patterns. For my last hat of the year, I made up my own pattern.

Here it is about an hour before midnight:


And here it is all finished:


And, just for the heck of it, here are my pattern notes.... I was a bit groggy at this point due to a truly mixed up sleep schedule:


The pattern will be available shortly (once I've written it up and test-knit it once). Wheee!