hermione hat!

I've gotten a little bored of making hexagons so I took a break and casted on the Hermione Cable and Eyelet hat that I linked in my New Year's post.  This hat is the first thing I've knit in probably 3 or four years but after a quick flip through Stitch n' Bitch, I remembered everything.  The yarn is Debbie Stoller's Stitch Nation Alpaca Love.  I really love this yarn, I'm glad I chose it!

This hat is the January KAL for 11 hats in 2011!  It'll be my 1 of 11.  

Here's a little unfinished hoop I stitched up a few months ago and haven't gotten around to finishing.  Having a full time job is making me extremely lazy!

And now, I feel awful.  I felt awful last night, I felt pretty awful today at work and I feel bad now.  So I'll spend my weekend making my hat and watching this little gem that my Mom got me for Christmas:

Happy weekend!

robo boogie!

Finished my "make it rain" hoop! All of the marker has faded, and I finished the hoop in white ribbon with colorful umbrellas on it. I thought it was pretty fitting. A.C. Moore just recently had a sale on ribbon, .99 cents a spool! Definitely stocked up on it.

Also started and finished a Flight of the Conchords inspired hoop. Based on their song Robots, or the Humans are Dead, in which there are only two dances in the world; the Robot and the Robo Boogie!

I made a quick sketch of the pattern on graph paper (which really doesn't work well for me, considering the graph paper squares are gigantic) and then set out to stitch it up. I changed the lettering around a bit as I was stitching.

I totally hijacked it as I was finishing it though and cut the cloth so that it barely had enough room to go around the hoop, making the back look ehhhh. I do that all the time and it's really irritating. Here's my coal statue Pennsylvania State Trooper weighting the back so the glue dries.

And the finished product! Wrapped in orange and pink ribbon!

I think I may actually start working on Christmas presents now, instead of making more hoops for my constantly growing hoop wall!