Saturday, January 03, 2015

Challenged

Today is January 3, and I have already blown my healthy eating, healthy sleeping, and healthy exercising challenges. The organization boxes (and trash bags) sit empty. The note cards, pens, and addresses for past due correspondence are somewhere.

HOWEVER, my participation in the 15 Hats in 2015 Challenge set out by Stash and Burn is going well! OK, it is going well because as part of the "warm-up," 2 of the hats could be knit in December 2014.

Hat #1 was a last minute gift for me. I had gotten a new fleece jacket earlier in the year, and decided I needed a coordinating hat. It is another Noro hat...

Hat #2 is the last of the hats I knit for my 4 grandsons. These hats all had a "secret:" the first 2 stripes above the ribbing had numbers of rows equal to the month and date of their birthday. The colors were chosen especially for them also- Minecraft, NY Yankees, etc. I used Plymouth Encore worcested from my stash and purchased other colorways, too.

The boys also received matching fingerless mitts, but I neglected to get a photo of all 4.

I have chosen both the yarn and the pattern for hat #3. I love to knit hats and probably knit more than 15 in any given year (almost all for various charities) so this is not a big deal for me. What is a big deal, though, is that I tend to knit the same few patterns over and over and over again, The added challenge to myself is that I will knit 10 of the hats using 10 new-to-me patterns,

Well, it is Saturday morning and I stayed up too late last night and therefore slept through breakfast, it is too rainy and cold to walk, I don't know where to begin with the organizing, and I'm too lazy to gather the cards, pens, and addresses for the letters. I think I will knit...