Jon's Knit Blog

I Can't Believe I Knit The Whole Skein

Yes, Phyl, there is orange Koigu.

I bought it at KNY on Friday evening because, well, I didn't think I was going to go to Boyz Night - The Karaoke Version until the very last minute, and I didn't have any knitting with me, but I really wanted to be knitting. Well, there was orange Koigu sitting there wanting to be a hat, and who was I to tell it no?

So the yarn and I went off to Karaoke, accompanied by KNY's lovely and talented Vanessa (Hi Vanessa!) where we found a small but fabulous group of boyz, most of whom were not even knitting. Jim was, though! We sang and sang and sang. It was very amusing - the place had, apparantly, two karaoke suites. The other suite was singing all this 80's rock. Aerosmith, stuff like that. "Straight music."

We, on the other hand, had Gay Karaoke, of course. We were, to put it mildly, fabulous. Tina Turner. Whitney. We did a rousing version of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean." And the old standbys like "Where the Boys Are" and most of the score of "Chicago." Our "Sixteen Going On Seventeen" was almost as good as our "Telephone Hour." I have to confess, I rather brought down the house with my rendition of Reba McEntire's hit "Fancy."

And I knit orange Koigu almost all the while!

Saturday was spent working. Until I came home, and I really meant to knit intarsia, because, well, the baby will be born soon and I assume she'll need a blankie. But the orange Koigu was still hollering that it wasn't a hat yet.

And the same thing happened when I got home from work tonight.

And the orange Koigu is starting to resemble a hat, don't you think? (I have actually done a couple crown decreases, but you can't tell, can you?)

That's a whole skein of Koigu, right there! Knit up in three evenings. Luckily for the Koigu, as it really wants to be a hat, I bought two skeins. So we'll actually be able to make the Koigu's dream come true!

In other news, I have one of the largest heads ever known to Vanessa-kind. Vanessa, who claims millinery (the making of non-knit hats for the unknowing) among her many talents, advised us of the largest head circumfrence she had ever witnessed in her head-measuring days. Well, the measuring tape was quickly around my head, and I out-circumfrenced them by a good 1/2". (24 3/4" in case you care.) I have a BIG head. But I don't let it go to my head. I just have to knit big hats.

And one other housekeeping-ish note: If you google knit blog, I come up as NUMBER 5! How astonishing is that? Wow!

Posted by Jon at June 27, 2005 02:04 AM