2ktog

The only thing even remotely as bad as my blogging habits is my ability to get something finished and in the mail. As such, I'm posting this in the hope that it makes me a little more likely and eager to get this hat done and set while there's still time for it to be useful.  Winter is still going on elsewhere, right?

First off, I forgot that Malabrigo and the size three of this hat needs just under one trip through the washing machine in order to be properly felted for a human-sized head.  As such, I've had to put it on a big sangria pitcher in order to get the brim stretched enough that it will be wearable.

But my real problem comes in the form of buttons.  I intended to go to the yellow house to get a nice button to really tie the hat together, but in three weekends, we still haven't gotten over there.  So I struck out for Jo-Ann Fabrics last night and came up with these:

  Here they are placed on the flower.  Which one do you think I should use?

Button 1 On Flower:
 

Button 2 On Flower:
 

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OMG. Two of my last three most recent entries are from 2005. That's just not right. Anyway, after a period of hiatus and sloth, I am sticking my head in again, to announce the new look of 2ktog, in lieu of actually finishing Miz Boots' Valentine's day gift, a nice lacy scarf in a very red yarn. Pictures will follow. Until then, I hope you enjoy the new site as we get more of it built!

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...and somewhere, there are pictures of what I've made. It's not been that much, but I have polished up two Pantas, a mult-directional scarf, about 15% of a Nantasket Basket (see below), and maybe something else that I've forgotten about. I started the cabled gauntlets from Interweave Knits (Fall 2004, I think), but decided they were shoddy, ripped them out, and started again. Comparison pictures will come later.

Via Diagonal has hit a conceptual problem, because I ran out of the green and I'm too stubborn to buy more. My first attempt to make the last two inches and a bottom using just the purple was a no-go. The fabric relies on the slip stitch pattern for its consistency. So, I've got to come up with something else (probably another slip-stich pattern) to fill out the bottom of the bag.

Oh yeah, somewhere in there was a totally gigantic entrelac scarf, which I don't think I ever got post-blocking pictures of, and thus never made an entry. Anyway, all of that is all well and good, but this is really what compelled me to post:

From Married to the Sea.

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