Taking a break...

It was not going so well. 

What wasn't going so well? 

My new knitting project.

It's a another hat. 

 
Are you thinking, For the love of yarn, why is she making another ridiculous hat?  It's simple. There's a birthday at the end of this month...and the b-day girl loves hats.  That would be L-O-V-E loves hats.  She also happens to love sparkles so imagine my delight when I found variegated gray yarn with sequins randomly attached throughout the yarn.  {Let's get one thing straight - I'm not the kinda gal to attach my own sequins.  Are you kidding me right now?  Sew those little shiny things into the knitting?  Ummmmm...no thanks.  Infact, if you scroll down to the next post - Chicken Tortilla Soup - you will read all about my laziness in that I just dump the ingredients in my crockpot and turn it on and walk away.  Infact, the irony is - that recipe came from my beloved cookbook, Fix It and Forget It, and 9 times out of 10, I usually do forget about whatever it is that is simmering and cooking in my crockpot all day while I am answering the phones, typing, and occasionally filing.}


Where was I?  Oh - yes, I remember.  I NEEDED A BREAK FROM A VERY BAD KNITTING PATTERN soooo I grabbed my needed-to-be-returned Hallmark DVDs and headed to the library.  {Knitting disclaimer:  It's not a BAD project....it just wasn't going well for me which translates - I had about 28 rows done, which happens to be a good chunk of the project, when I noticed that the ribbed part that sits on your head looks ripply...think Little House on the Prairie night caps.  Those (Little House ones) were supposed to be ripply.  The hat for the b-day girl NOT SO MUCH!!!!!!!  I removed the project from the needles and unraveled all my work and looked at Celia cat and said, "I'm going to the library and Hobby Lobby."}


First I stopped at Hobby Lobby and picked up a skein of yarn to make yours truly a winter hat to go with an orange wool coat.  The yarn - DEEEEEELIGHTFUL!  It's variegated with mustard, a muted vintage-ish blue, brighter-than-sage green, and I think there's some cream.  I feel as though I am missing a color from this description so if this is the case, please don't shoot the messenger.


I love the library.  I always have.  As a child, our little village library was only open on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and every-other-Saturday.  The library was 4 miles from our house and my brother and I would ride our bikes there.  We would, then, sit for hours skimming books.  We didn't have the Internet back then {I love telling my Sunday school kids this awesome fact because then they equate my age with that of a T-rex.  No, I was not alive when dinosaurs roamed the planet.} so going to the library was actually going for books and only books.  The library late fee fine was a whole nickel.  I'm wondering if this nickel fine is similar to when my grandpa would tell me that when he as a kid, gas was a quarter a gallon.  Suddenly, I am feeling my age...no Internet and 5 cent fines.  I digress.


Speaking of my childhood... 
In like first or second grade, I had a lovely cream colored Holly Hobby dress.  Holly Hobby was wearing a green and orange print dress.  With my snazzy dress, I wore a pair of orange tights with brown buckle shoes.  I loved this dress.  I have a picture (somewhere) of me holding a book, sitting on a vintage trunk, wearing my beloved dress.  I love this picture.  It's my childhood summed up in a snapshot.  You see, I'm quite reserved...until you get to know me.  Once that happens - I'm sorry.  :)


Anyway....the orange tights. 
Yesterday I wore raspberry colored tights with my knee-length denim skirt, a cute striped shirt and a leopard print scarf.  {Insert me rolling my r's...rrrrrrrrrrrr!  I heart leopard print.}  Any-whoooo...those fab raspberry tights got me thinking about my orange tights and Holly Hobby dress.  I love that my childhood memories involve lovely dresses that were handmade for me by my mom.  Such a wonderful treasure...time and sewing.  I didn't quite appreciate it as a child, but now that I am an adult (Ugh - adulthood!), I really do appreciate more and more.


Next week I have mustard tights and teal tights to wear!  Have I mentioned today just how much I love Fall and sweater-y weather-y outfits????  I do!  I do!