You Started It!

When I remember arguments I had with my siblings as a child, the most common remark we made when busted by my parents was that the other kid started it.  I was never to blame, of course; merely an innocent bystander. A victim of circumstance.  But my parents didn't really care who started it.  They just wanted the arguing to stop. Now it all makes sense why that was such a lame remark.  Who cares who started it?

KNITTING
So, last week I started it!

Cast on for yet, another hat!

I found the pattern on the Cascade Yarns website, and want to be sure you check out the pattern.

The yarn I'm using is my own handspun.  I bought the roving from my friend at the first of the year, and have featured it in several posts.  It is finally starring in its perfect role, the Feather and Fan Hat.

Handspun

About 20 rows on size 9 circulars

Ready to start the decreases

You're probably wondering why I would be knitting ANOTHER HAT when I DON'T WEAR HATS.  I don't know.  I just don't know.  People often ask me when I'm knitting, "who's that for?" but I can't say right now, who this is for.  Maybe by next winter something will come to me. Lame is my middle name.

SPINNING
The gi-nor-mous batch of wool I've been picking and carding is done.  All told, its well over a pound of wool, and that would be the equivalent of 4 or 5 skeins of yarn.

The price of 100% wool yarn ranges in price from $5 to $20 and up, depending on the preparation and quality of the wool (micron count).  If the wool is blended with anything exotic, that ups the price, sometimes considerably.  The color/dye of the wool makes a difference. The fact that I am only just now at the 'carding - one pass through the carder' stage after literally hours of labor, makes this wool way more valuable to me than to any other person.

PERSONAL
This weekend I got my first pedicure at a salon!  We were all going to a wedding later in the day so my daughter generously offered to pay for me, her, and my daughter in law to all get pedicures on Saturday morning.  It was so much fun, and the owner of the salon gave me mine, thankfully.  I'm a bit squeamish and had told the girls in advance that if a man was going to do my pedicure, I'd defer to them until a lady was available.  But when the time came, the friendly Asian gentleman who picked up the towel seemed harmless enough and did a fantastic job.

clockwise, me, Betsy, Amber

While gone, we told the guys (minus baby daddy) that there was a bottle of formula and bottle paraphernalia laying next to the sink. When we came home, this was what we found.

ingenious way to feed a baby

Baby drank the milk and not a drop was spilled.  Amazing!