We had a pleasant, unfussy 4th here celebrated with tortellini and sausage, scones, soft drinks, games and the Monk marathon :) I am desperately hoping that the after dark noise level goes down now. For the last three nights there have been firecrackers and whiz-bangs going off straight through the wee small hours and I’m beginning to twitch unbecomingly…
I admit to having been a bit obsessive over the last few days. That is, I found a project I liked and stuck with it. Ahem…
Cap with seed stitch band
Cap with red diagonal stripes
Viking chicken hat - sort of :)
First, I didn’t have a size 5 circular needle to do the seed stitch band with so I just went ahead and did everything on a size 6 circular (magic loop style). Things seem to have come out nicely and I like the way the decreases are handled in terms of fitting the head. I believe I will try this kind of decrease on other hats to see how it works out.
I also discontinued the stitch pattern when the decreases commenced. I could tell you all kinds of stories about contrasting texture going from the dense seed, to the less dense goosebump and finally to the smooth stockinette - but I’d be full of sheep dip. Once I started the decreases I was chicken to try and continue the stitch pattern and so I just abandoned it at that point. I don’t think the hat looks bad though. I like the colors here - sort of caramel and French vanilla. Butterscotch sundae, anyone? Oh, and the drumsticks? I got hungry :)
Now I have a fragment of an old Neil Diamond song running through my head - something about “chicken-ripple ice cream”?
So, while I told myself I was playing with hats, that’s only a partial truth. I’ve also been playing with color and that took me longer to figure out :) My last stranding experiments were more than a year ago and I would have told you that I hadn’t given it much thought since then. Clearly there’s been more going on in the back of my head than I was aware of.
But then isn’t that always the case?
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it looks like you’re getting a start on dulaan ii-
umm, i thought i was familiar with *all* things neil diamond sang (this is proof that i am far older than dirt!!) but i cannot come up with any ‘chicken lyrics’-
sounds like you had a nice and productive, if not quiet, holiday- i can’t really believe we’re already well into july-
stay happy-
Barb - The rest of the song caught up with me while I was driving this afternoon. It’s “Porcupine Pie” from 1972’s Hot August Night which I played absolutely to death and then some :)
Ahem.
My hat’s off to you.
(I had to say it. Don’t hate me!)
Don’t talk to me about twitching - I know whereof you speak. Our neighbors partied like it was 1999. And then some. Bang, whiz, screech, pop, rat-a-tat-tat. Scared the cat half to death & made me want to dive under the bed too!
Bron - You have my complete sympathies. And, now that you mention it, the poor cats have been acting a little weird. And, goddammit, it scares away my birds! LOL!
Hot August Night...Boy, does that bring back memories. I played that album to death. I had seen the Chicken hat over at Vicki’s (knitorious) blog a few months ago. What a hoot!Glad to hear you had a great weekend.
Maureen - I remember listening to that album while staying up all night to finish my very first afhan. goodness, Diamond was something in those days.
‘Course, so were we :)
