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I totally made a sweater for my coffee cup, ha ha!

The pattern can be found here

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I don't think of teal and purple as being very close in color but maybe they were too similar for felting. You can barely make the skulls and crossbones out after felting. Oh well. It works, anyway. Thanks to my wonderful husband for rushing out and buying me a mocha to test it out! <3

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The Cash Iroha "Evangeline" glove I was working on while Margaret got tattooed. It was such a little tattoo that I think I only did three or four rows. Well, it's done now.

This yarn feels soooo nice against the skin. I wish I had enough to make the elbow length version. Next time.

Finally finished!  It's only been a few days but it feels like much longer.  I had a lot of problems losing my count and forgetting where I was, then not noticing until a row or two later.  I didn't end up having to bind off that cast-on row.  I just unraveled the first row of it and it was perfect.  I don't know how it stayed together but it did. 


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That little point in back will go away when I get the hat wet.  I normally wash them immediately but I want to wear it tomorrow and it won't be dry in time if I do.

There were instructions given for a fitted style, "regular" (like a traditional tam) and slouchy.  I went with regular.  It turned out to be almost the same dimensions as my Shenanigan.  It fits just the way I like a hat to fit - over the bun, not hanging down on my neck.  Cashmere-silk Cash Iroha is only my favorite yarn ever.  And I'm terribly proud of all that cabling.  I've done cables before but this is the most tricky cabling I've done to date.  I messed up in places but I fixed it and it came out perfect.  I so love this hat.  :)

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It's her birthday today and I gave it to her already so here is the picture, finally. So much better than the one I made for myself! Just your basic Cascade 220 Tweed but it's not itchy with all that mohair like the Lamb's Pride has.

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Just a few rows away from the decreases, I decided it looked big enough to try on. So I did. Or tried. I can't get the thing on my head. The fancypants tubular cast-on is beautiful but tight. So, so tight. Way too tight.  Look at all that beautiful cabling I just did!  *whimper*  I was just about resigned to having to rip it all out and start over when Raven pointed out I could just unravel the beginning and cast off. I am so doing that.  Thanks, kid!

Still plugging away at the braided cable scarf.  I really love the design but I hate the yarn.  It's the mohair in the Lamb's Pride.  It sheds all over everything.  I can't stand it!  It was stash yarn.  I am using it because I don't have a yarn budget right now. No new yarn for me.  I have to work with what I have.  So I realized at some point that I am putting all this energy into making a scarf I love that I also hate, that I am never going to want to wear because it sheds.  That might be when I lost interest in it.  I'll finish it anyway.  I just don't know when.  

For now, I'm busy learning the tubular cast-on so I can make the Gretel hat out of black Cash Iroha.  I'd started knitting a leafy lace pattern scarf out of it but decided I don't need two black Cash Iroha scarves.  I think I have enough Cash Iroha to do the Gretel hat and a short pair of Evangeline gloves.  Lots of cables in those Evangelines but gloves are small projects so it shouldn't make me too crazy.

So I remembered an old pair of headphones that I got for free from Bolt.com back in the day. I gave them to the kid a long time ago because I wasn't using them but she doesn't like how they fit. I wanted something to use in the gym so she just gave them back. They lost the foam thingers a long time ago so I decided to try knitting my own covers.

The speakers are about 2" across so my first thought was to knit the pasties from Naughty Needles and make them slightly larger than 2". I was going to use elastic or make a drawstring to tighten them up. But then it occurred to me to use elastic yarn and make teeny tiny berets instead. So I did! :D And it worked! I started out with a small number of stitches and ribbing to keep them in place, then did an increase row and some straight stockinette. I put some eyelets in the middle where the holes are on the speakers to let the sound through a little better.

Here's my teeny tiny hat. :D

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And stretched out over the speaker thingers.

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I'm calling them No Excuses because not having headphones was my last excuse to avoid the gym. These will fit 2" diameter headphone speakers.

Materials:
Less than 1 skein of Cascade Fixation
US size 4 dpns

Cast on 16 stitches. Distribute on the needles however you wish. I put 4 each on needles 1 and 2 and 8 on needle 3.
Do 3 rounds of k2p2 ribbing.
The next round, knit into the front and back of every stitch. You now have 32 stitches.
Knit four rounds plain.
Next round, work in eyelet pattern. Yo, k2tog around. Knit one row plain. Repeat these two rows one time.
Yo, k2tog for one round.
Next round, k2tog around.
Next round, Yo, k2tog around.
Last round, k2tog around.
Break yarn and weave in ends. Stretch it to fit your headphones and make one more for the other side. I found this to be a VERY tight fit because of the small number of cast-on stitches. It took a little time and wiggling but I got it to stretch. I don't want it to ever come off so I like it that way.

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I couldn't wait. Here it is in progress. I know it's very simple but it's turning out just as I wanted so...yay!