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And now, the knitting.
I am one-third done with my Red Scarf.
Yarn is Knit Picks Swish DK being knit on US#6 / 4.0mm* circ. Pattern is the Yarn Harlot's One-Row Scarf (first link is to the pattern on her blog, second is the Ravelry pattern link, third is Rav link to my project). I love this pattern -- reversible, thus perfect for a scarf; mindless, and thus perfect for grab-and-go knitting.
I didn't know how much of this yarn to order, so I skimmed a few scarf patterns and decided five skeins (615 yds) would be enough. Then I panicked and decided I needed more, so ordered a couple more skeins. After knitting exactly one skein's worth of yarn, I now know that one skein produces twenty inches of scarf that will block to six inches wide. So I have enough yarn for a whole other scarf... and a hat. Go, me!
When I felt how soft and nice this yarn was I decided it would be perfect for Smokey's co-worker's second chemo hat. Also in its favor was that it came in [what I deemed to be] the exact color she had requested, khaki. Khaki green, to be precise. (If she meant khaki tan, she and I are SOL.)
The yarn and the hat (color is correct in the yarn photo):
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I need your help. A week or so ago I read on a blog somewhere of a project to collect hand-knit hats for the homeless. The address to mail them was, iirc, on Dupont Avenue South in Minneapolis, although I am not sure that the blogger was a Twin Cities person. Now, however, I can remember neither the blog nor the address. But I have some hats -- or soon will have some hats, right now I have 1-1/2 -- and I don't know where to send them. Does anyone remember the blog? or the address? or the deadline?
* I am trying to learn the metric sizes that correspond to the US sizes. Mostly I just remember La Harlot once saying, "Okay, here we have a 4.5mm needle. What shall we call it in the US? I know! A number... 7!" then I count up or down from there, a half millimeter at a time.
