One Hat Done

Tonight at Friday Night Knitting I finished the first Pointy Red Hat. I'm calling it that because it's an amalgam of three different hat patterns. Because the yarn I wanted to use was bulky weight which is heavier than the yarn called for in the original Melt the ICE Hat, I searched and found a plain beanie pattern using bulky yarn so I started there. When I reached the crown decreases I went with another similarly named pattern because the directions for decreasing made more sense to me. And finally I used the  original hat pattern for the cord/braid and tassel. Like I said, an amalgam, but I like the way it turned out.

 

I cast on another one right away and this time I'm still using the bulky yarn (because I have plenty left). I'm going to model the original pattern and make Knit 1, Purl 1 ribbing for six inches and then do the decreases so it'll look more like the pattern picture. I'd be further along but my hands got tired so I stretched them and rested.

 

Look at what came today! It's an 18" tall lighted palm tree! I'm so thrilled with it. I plan to use it as a display piece on my sales table, with the flamingo sunglasses holder under it, of course. Fortunately it comes apart and collapses into a nice tidy box so I can take it along in my tote. Cool, huh?

 

I spent most of the day that I wasn't on one Zoom or another working to get Open For Business's manuscript tidied up and reloaded to Kindle Create. My first version of KC broke so I had to reload the program and lost my uploaded manuscripts. This is one of them. So I'm reading through it on Word with a paperback copy at hand to make sure I'm publishing what I want it to say. Laborious and tiring.

 

So by getting caught up in writing work, I didn't get to drawing today. I promise I'll draw again tomorrow.

Hey, it got up to 16 degrees today. And it's supposed to hit 20 and above tomorrow. Heat wave! Maybe the doorknob will thaw out. 

--Barbara