Showing posts with label BeantownBandit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BeantownBandit. Show all posts

1.27.2010

Longest Overdue FO EVER

So I probably finished AND blocked this back in November. Then I hung it up in my closet and forget about it until this morning.



Do you all even remember me starting this? Because I don't. Ravelry tells me it was back in July, and here it is, 7 months later, and it finally made it out of the house. That being said, I freaking love this pattern.



This is the 2nd time I've made this (the first was Traveling Bandit), and I'm already planning on a 3rd. This version was in wool and had an extra leaf repeat which I though I would like more than I do. It makes it quite a bit bigger, and therefore creates extra bulk around the neck. However it is super warm, and can now double as a wrap.



Pattern: Springtime Bandit
Materials: Cascade 220 Wool, size 8 needles
Ravelry



On an unrelated note, I picked up a lost dog that was wandering around in the street last night on my way home from work. This dog, which can't weigh more than 8 pounds, actually charged my giant SUV and then hid underneath it after I stopped, barking at me when I came close. Luckily, I had some fresh baked sourdough from my stop at the grocery store (it MIGHT have been sitting in the front seat and I MIGHT have been eating it straight from the loaf), so with a bit of that I had him in the car with me in no time.



He is beyond adorable. We put up signs all over the neighborhood last night and no one has called. He and Katy seem to get along, although when we woke up this morning and the dog (Little Man, as we've been calling him) was still there, Katy seemed less than entertained.

He's definitely less than a year old; he doesn't seem to be housebroken (ASK ME HOW WE KNOW) and he is biting at everything.

Someone please remind me I am having a baby in less than 5 months and we don't need a puppy. Please.

7.23.2009

Buttercuppy Love

I. Love. This. KNIT!



Buttercup by Heidi Kirrmaier
Size

Small
Needle
US 3 / 3.25 mm
US 5 / 3.75 mm
Yarn
Knit Picks CotLin
7 skeins = 861.0 yards (787.3m)
Taupe
RAVELRY

Never have the cosmos and knitting gods aligned so perfectly in a finished object. The yarn, the fit - it's perfect! See how happy I am?!?



Not only that, but I am headed down to Santa Monica for a wedding this weekend, where it's a glorious 70 degrees and I can actually WEAR IT. Yay!

Speaking of roadtripping, two more projects in the works for the driving:
Vesper (and I didn't twist the stitches at cast-on!)



and

Beantown Bandit (named for the place I bought the yarn)



Finally, I'll leave you with some humor for the day



Judging by my pigtails, I am going to guess this is 1986 or 1987, on the first day of school. Not only are my sister and I wearing matching dressing that my mom made... our Cabbage Patch Kids got smaller versions as well. Wow. Just Wow. I hope we weren't attending the same school at this time!

I remember that doll clearly. Apparently my dad had to drive to more than one CITY looking for this thing. Her name was Doumeta or something off the wall like that. God bless the 80s.