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Election day! Exercised my right to vote, I don't care who wins, as long as it isn't the conservative party. I dragged B with me, he found it all very exciting.


The bulk of my knitting this past week took place at Maison Tricote, where I worked on one project-the Basket Whip cowl. (Do you spot the hand knit biscotte&cie socks?)

So I finished the basket whip cowl. It was a fun and quick knit, and I really liked knitting with Quince & Co yarn, but I'm not sure I am a cowl person. Maybe for mild days, but I wore the cowl out when it was windy and hovering around 2°C and it didn't do much in the keeping warm department. I really hate when my neck and chin are cold.

 Last year, I accidentally felted two of the infinity scarves I made with Malabrigo worsted, and one of them was so unwearable that I had to toss it. I love my Soda Fountain scarf, but I knit it in Glazed Carrot (Malabrigo) and it's gorgeous, but it doesn't go with everything. I want to make an infinity scarf with my Illamani  Cadena I, which will pretty much go with everything, but i'm having a hard time finding a pattern I like. I even spent a couple of hours flipping through stitch dictionaries, the Cadena I is chained so I want something simple, but not so simple that I get bored and it becomes another ufo.
btw, look at this yarn? isn't it beautiful?? I like to pet it and rub it against my face.

I'm thinking of starting off with a provisional cast on, and then some rows of garter stitch, stockinette and rows of eyelets, and then finish it off with a three needle bind off. Just need to figure out needles, how many stitches and how long to knit.

I also bought new yarn for the alpaca chullo hat that I want to re-make. I was rooting around in a discount basket at Maison Tricote when I found two skeins of  bulky O Wool, in "Earth" and "Oyster" which are absolutely perfect for the chullo! At 20% off, it was clearly meant to be.

Of course, instead of casting on the chullo hat, I cast on a different hat. I cast on and am currently knitting the Lomond hat by LittleTheorum.

I'm knitting it using two strands of stashed kp swish worsted in Lost Lake Heather, which is a kind of dark olive/bluish colour. I have enough in stash that I'll probably do mittens as well.
It's super cute, and even though I hate knitting moss stitch, I have to admit it looks really nice.
I messed up 2 of the 4 wrap&turns, missed picking up the wraps but didn't notice until I was just over one inch into the stockinette part of the hat. Could have been worse...

How does one pick up two wraps, but completely miss the other two, when they're all on the same row?? I was so irritated with myself that I put the hat down, left it overnight, and only earlier this evening did I pick up the hat again, and rip-it rip-it rip-it, all the way back to the double moss stitch band. When I'm done writing this blog, I'm going to get myself some tea, make everyone leave me alone, and re-knit the set-up row and the short row, picking up all the wraps this time, I'll even put a locking stitch marker in the wrap so I don't forget it this time around.

I have one other FO worth mentioning, I finished one chocolato sock! Cast on the second chocolato sock,

worked on it a little bit while having cupcakes and hot chocolate with A, my 17yr old,  after seeing The Aztec exhibition at the  Pointe-a-Calliere musuem on Sunday. The Aztecs; much sacrifice, very bloody, wow.

*anything but conservatives