Labor Day Weekend

I can't believe that Labor Day is here already. This summer seems to have just started but now it's over and I feel like I didn't even notice it. I think I must have been too caught up inside my head and too full of worries and the grumps to pay attention to what was happening outside. That'll teach me. The coolest nicest summer ever in Minnesota and I didn't take full advantage of it while I could have. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Well...if I'm lucky there will be more summers like this and I will have less worries and irritations during them so I'll be better able to enjoy them!

I got some good stuff done during my crabby cold summer and here is an example:
It's a hat from an Elizabeth Zimmerman pattern that I made for a baby that was born 5 weeks ago. Unfortunately I think she'll probably be three or maybe ten before it fits her but I never claimed to be perfect, and babies are foreign to me. It's cute though, and soft. I used a strand of sock yarn and a strand of Kidsilk mohair and it turned out really nice. Soft enough for a cute little girl.

My next project is a bag; this is the front of it:
This is a project I got a long time ago when my mom and I went to a big knitting convention together. The yarn is a really nice and soft worsted weight and I think it might be undyed. It was in a kit with a pattern for a bag that had cables...and bobles and I-cord and all kinds of complicated funny things that when I looked at it again didn't look like any fun at all. So I looked through my collection of old Interweave Knits magazines (also courtesy of my mom, Thanks Mom!!) and found this great pattern with simple cables and no bobbles and nothing too weird or un-fun. I think it will turn into a lovely bag.