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subtlefire) wrote2010-08-15 07:47 pm
subtlefire) wrote2010-08-15 07:47 pm
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Caps, caps everywhere!
Hello again! I did not, in fact, forget about this blog. I did, however, manage to do quite a lot of things in the last several months that could have been posted but (obviously) were not. I may try to backtrack and share some projects. The first thing that should be noted is that, when I boxed up Ravelympics hats to send to Caps for a Cure, I found that I had miscounted. In fact, I made 23 hats in 14 days. That broke my brain again.
Sadly, the next brain-breaking thing that happened was when I looked at my stash and realized that, minus nearly two dozen hats, it was still the pretty much same size. So much for that fabulous idea. I'm still churning away at the destash, and found a few good, standard patterns that I can pull out depending on the weight and texture of the yarn and crank out a nice stack of chemo caps.
I'm all about the caps right now, not only because I have a massive amount of appropriate yarn, but because I finally have a local treatment center to donate to. A local group is making knitted knockers for UT Medical Center and the hospital was also eager to get some caps. Fortunately, hats are a good, portable size, so they can go almost anywhere with me, and the pattern I'm working with the most is only ribbing and stockinette until the decreases, which makes it good conversation/ tv/ podcast/ listen-to-a-new-album knitting.
I think that is what I am going to do now. I just discovered Arctic Monkeys and should probably know more than one or two songs before I start flinging their music at anyone who will pay attention to me for five seconds.
Sadly, the next brain-breaking thing that happened was when I looked at my stash and realized that, minus nearly two dozen hats, it was still the pretty much same size. So much for that fabulous idea. I'm still churning away at the destash, and found a few good, standard patterns that I can pull out depending on the weight and texture of the yarn and crank out a nice stack of chemo caps.
I'm all about the caps right now, not only because I have a massive amount of appropriate yarn, but because I finally have a local treatment center to donate to. A local group is making knitted knockers for UT Medical Center and the hospital was also eager to get some caps. Fortunately, hats are a good, portable size, so they can go almost anywhere with me, and the pattern I'm working with the most is only ribbing and stockinette until the decreases, which makes it good conversation/ tv/ podcast/ listen-to-a-new-album knitting.
I think that is what I am going to do now. I just discovered Arctic Monkeys and should probably know more than one or two songs before I start flinging their music at anyone who will pay attention to me for five seconds.