Hello, hello.
Time for an update. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted, even though I’ve started/finished/frogged/loathed quite a few projects in this time.
I’ll start with the easiest. I got caught KIP between sets at a coffee house concert and the photographer decided to get a few pictures of me. Haha, it was SO awkward! Here is a picture of me TRYING to look natural but completely terrified to have a giganto camera lens pointed at me.
You might notice my fabulous place holder, which also doubles as a paper clip 
The sweater I’m wearing zips together to turn me into a robot! Sweet!!!
Well, well, that was the easy part. It’s currently a little after 4 a.m. and I’ve been working on a new project (of sorts) for the last hour and a half. Here is a picture of what I’ve accomplished. Sorry that the picture is fuzzy, but I’m lazy and have recently discovered the joy of camera phones for uploading unimportant pictures to such sites as Flickr and Photobucket. I’ll bust out the good ol’ camera when I have a picture that’s important.
Basically, I knit a version of that ridiculously orange beanie that my friend wanted. I was using worsted weight and the original beanie was a machine knit fingering weight yarn. I finished the beanie a few hours ago and absolutely hate how it turned out. I showed it to my friend and he tried to be nice about it but I’m pretty sure he was disappointed with the finished item. I can’t blame him, I hate it too!!
So, my imaginary OCD kicked in, and I decided to take the orange yarn I have left over and split the 4-strand yarn into two sets of 2-strand yarn. Crazy? Yes. But I found a MUCH better pattern for a beanie in fingering weight yarn that I’ll use for another orange beanie. It actually looks EXACTLY like his beanie, whereas the one I used before was just a 2×2 ribbing pattern that I thought would be convenient and he said he liked. Anyway, I’m working on splitting the yarn for now and then will make him another insanely orange beanie.
I didn’t tell him that I was going to give the hat another go, so hopefully I’ll surprise him with a PERFECT recreation! 
I’ve already come close to telling him about it a million times. Mostly because his face would fall ever so slightly when I show him how the beanie was coming along. And I kept wanting to say, NO! Don’t be sad! Please love my work! I’ll make a better one!! But I was strong. So far. Haha..
I feel a little crazy, but oh well. That’s been the highlight of my day, finishing the beanie, realizing I detested the finsihed product, and making fingering weight yarn out of worsted weight. I’ll post more later when I have time to take good photos since I finsihed a few projects, one of which I’m REALLY pleased with. More coming soon!
