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I am having too much fun with needles these days. Last night I stayed up well past my senior citizenish bedtime to work on Calorimetry, a project I cast on for yesterday around 7 pm. Just what I needed--another project! For reasons outside my control I had to pause on my primary project, and found a verigated worsted weight wool (blend?) in my coffee table. Obviously I had to turn it into a heat-keeping headband. This was especially necessary since I finished another new hat just a weekish ago. Geez.
I arrived about 15 minutes early to work, and instead of turning on the computers and getting down to it, I worked a couple of rows until an early patron interrupted me. Oh! While I was knitting I FINALLY remembered to make an 8-5 EST phone call to cancel an extraneous expense that is automatically charged to my debit card each quarter. Go me! Bashing budget busters and knocking out projects like they're going out of style! Wait. None of this stuff I am making is going out of style for reals, right?
Anyway, back to the pattern. Since I am almost finished, I will share my review:
To attain gauge I had to drop a couple needle sizes, and I also added a couple repeats of the short rows to make it a little wider. It is possible that the apparent narrowness was a result of my needle substitution. This is a fun and adaptable pattern that any skill-level knitter could whip up in a flash, and an easy way to learn the magic of the short row. I'll definitely be making more of these!
