So, I Got An Inspiration....

I have been chugging away at lace (for both our lace class sharf design and for the Joyful Ferocity) and stockinetting myself to sleep at night with the Humble Cardigan and the dress for Gwen.  And suddenly, I have a nice wooly hat project – with a deadline.

I think I have mentioned that my son Geoff is studying at The London Dramatic Academy this fall.  And my daughter Sasha is flying out to visit him there next week.  So, I thought we could send along some little things – hand-written notes, a picture Max made at school, comics clipped from our local newspaper, that sort of thing.  And then I got an Inspiration:  I could knit him a nice wool hat!  A hat is quick -- and I have (almost) a week to do it.

So, off to Lambs Ear Farm we went (Sarah and I).  The hat has to be warm.  So we got some Rowan Scottish Tweed dk and some Cascade 220 Superwash (for the ribbing – softer than the Tweed).  The Tweed is a melding of golds with flecks of yellow.  The Superwash is olive. 

The hat has to be warm.  But it also has to be cool!  Hence the edgy gold colors.  And I plan to make it up as a ribbed watch cap with a quirky cable emblem-sort-of-thing.  One ribbed hat (which I have yet to design – although I started swatching today) in (almost) one week.  Not unreasonable.

Although, I am going to the zoo with the grandbabies tomorrow.  And to the theatre in the evening.  And Saturday is the Oktoberfest dinner at church.  And Sunday is my son-in-law Jordan’s birthday…. Well, it is always like that, isn’t it?

But there is nothing like a deadline – that hat has to be on the plane with Sasha on Tuesday evening!