is doing a special blog project for the month of November called NaBloPoMo
which is National Blog Posting Month where you have to blog every day for
a month.
As everyone that knows me well, I love a challenge and will try most of them
that come along.
found out about this one too late...but if it gets me blogging again,
I will do it for 29 days or into December...
seems like the other bloggers are looking for topics or a theme to last a month...
and it did not take me long to come up with mine....
HATS....staytuned to my reasons tomorrow for picking hats.
I also plan to recap Rhinebeck 2008....lots of news from that one...
also photos and update on my new best friend... MY LENDRUM DT
and other exciting recaps....
have loads of knitting FINISHED stuff to share.
DAY 1, actually Nov. 2 (but who's keeping track...
am blogging finally again right)
Hat #1 is the Rolled-Brim Hat by Vanessa Montileone
I love new knitting books...and often will take them out of the library...
then drool over photos, perhaps knit a project and return them...
and often turn around and buy the must haves for my own collection....
one of these that I prerequested was:
Vogue Knitting on the Go: Cables: Mittens, Hats & Scarves
Although there were several projects in the book I liked...
I was drawn to the cables and bobbles of the hat...
an interesting challenge. This was a really fun and a great
hat to knit...the intricate cable with bobbles hat band is done first
and then stitches are picked up around top of band and knitted
in the round to the crown of the hat...
Lately it seems like a lot of our local yarn stores are going out of
business very sadly...
and this hat has actually turned out to be knitted from
the result of two of my favorite stores final discount yarns....I used Naturally
Nazareth yarn by Kraemer (one of my favorites, as it felts beautifully) for the base
from Wright's in Sturbridge, MA...a lovely store, sadly missed...and the top part was Cascade 220 wool from Fabric Place in Framingham, MA...soon to be gone and another great loss for the community...this trend seems to be occuring everywhere.
Anyway, came out awesome...love this hat, and plan to keep this one for myself...it's all wool so will be great for COLD New England weather.
tomorrow is Day #2 blogging...with Hat Story #2
