i bought some yarn the other week from Black Sheep Wool, my favorite LYS. The yarn is 55%Hemp, 45% wool and spun by a local company (person?), The Angora Cottage. I chose the color, pansies, with the short row hat in mind.

As i started knitting, however, i realized that the variations in color came too quickly to look right in the short row hat and, after reading Melissa’s ode to linen stitch, decided that the linen stitch just might be the one to show off this yarn.

so, here we have it, the pansies hat:


pattern, none really.
1. Cast on an even number of stitches, enough to fit around your head. Join in round, be careful not to twist, bla bla.
2. Work in linen stitch for 5 inches (i think i should have gone for less, though).
3. Purl one round.
4. Divide your total number of stitches by 5, call that number ‘n’
5. k2tog at the nth stitch (n=n-1) every other row until you have decreased the number of stitches by approximately 30%
6. Decrease at the nth (n=n-1) stitch every row until you have 5 stitches left.
7. Draw end of yarn through the last five stitches and work in ends.

i don’t know why i keep trying to capture the morning light in our kitchen with the digital camera. I never seem to be able to get its softness. And then of course, there’s a chair again. When will i get out of that rut? Is it a rut? I’m not sure.

My goal for 2006 is to consciously not take art too seriously. Not that i do, but i see a lot of people fall into that trap and i see the same four generic nudes at every photo competition where the nude says nothing, but the photo is labeled as art because there is a nude woman in it. So tired of that. While there are times in utah that you are surprised at what gets ‘accepted’ when it comes to art, there are other times when it is just so predictable that it makes you want to scream and the only way to not scream is to just take the whole thing less seriously. We’ll see how much i scream this year.