The KermitMan Gloves got finished last night while Aud and I stayed up late doing GirlTalk.
Dignified they may not be, but I'm really proud of them . . . they actually look like what they were supposed to look like, and it feels good to have knit something so different from what I'm used to, at least with regards to gauge and complexity. Also, after I finished them last night, I sat there for ages just flipping the mitten top back and forth. (Easily amused? Check.) On the other hand, working with all those little stitches on size 3 needles really did a number on my right wrist. The last couple of days were a trial. When I saw those pictures up for Dulaan, it was all I could do not to cast on a hat then and there.
. . . so, I waited about ten hours instead, and then cast on the hat.
I have a feeling that anyone reading this blog is going to get just as sick of seeing this Kermit yarn as I will be of knitting with it. But, hey, I don't argue with 750+ yards of merino for like $2.50 (plus my time in unraveling and blocking it). No sir!
This hat got dubbed "The Nipple Hat" by Aud, because the first time I decreased for the top, I knit a round even after the last decrease round, which put a little button on the top, so that when the hat was worn, it made the head look remarkably like a giant green breast. (Lest you think that Aud's mind is in the gutter, I was the one who first observed this, and she was a little shocked before she started laughing.) I unraveled that round, and now the hat looks much less erotic, but it will always be the Nipple Hat to us.
Also, something that I didn't mention in my introductory post is that I'm a casual collector of My Little Ponies. By 'casual' I mean that I collected them obsessively for about two years, and now I've mostly moved on, but I have a couple hundred ponies sitting around that I'm not sure what to do with. I thought I was mostly done with buying ponies, but . . . apparently not. It looks like Hasbro has released a 25th Anniversery edition of the original six ponies from 1983--AND they're available online. (Here and here.)
My brain immediately started to figure out how I could come up with $30 to get both sets. (I ruled out selling my roommate, but I am still considering the merits of eating primarily ramen for two weeks.) If nothing else, I'd like to get my hands on the Snuzzle/Blossom/Minty set, because, really, the last vestige of my MLP collecting has been Minty paraphernalia. I suppose we'll see . . . my next non-grocery purchase was supposed to be a drop spindle and some fleece so I could learn to spin, but that may have to get put off another month or two . . .
Dang. I hate when my hobbies conflict with each other. Especially when one of them is a zombie hobby come back for the dead to eat my brain unless I pacify it with money and shelf space.
Edit, 10/8/07: This post is getting a lot of spam, so I'm disabling comments. If you want to comment, send me an e-mail--I'm museofastronomy over on gmail.com.
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