Photo Friday!

I've still got about 13 minutes of Friday here in Dublin, so the post still counts ;) Here's my cowl that I finally purchased and sewed on buttons for! I'm making a matching pair of fingerless mitts which will each have one of the smaller buttons and coral and olive colored embroidery.


P.S. - Andrew Maxwell was awesome!
P.P.S. - Would you?

Apparently My Head is Enormous

So I started up knitting again with a vengeance about three months ago, and I've been moving through this beret pattern with modifications to fit the Noro yarn shown --> Went to the knitting night at This Is Knit in Blackrock, met some awesome ladies (*waves*), and then finished up the hat once I got home.

Except I didn't because apparently my head is enormous. I know that won't be surprising to you mom, but seriously, the yarn I'm using knits up larger than the yarn originally called for (meaning that doing the pattern the way its written would mean my hat was bigger than the sample hat) and it still doesn't fit. Now I'm not completely freakish as it fits just fine circumference-wise (I swear!) its the depth of hat that's the problem. I have to tug at it to get it to barely cover my ears :( So I've decided to just undo it (ie 'frogging' in the knit world) back until before the decreases at the crown and do another 10-ish rows. A little disappointing but oh well!