sweet Sunday

I decided to revisit this gnome hat pattern with yarn I actually like, rather than the only DK yarn I could find at the craft store. My BFF E gave me two skeins of delicious Malabrigo Silky Merino some time ago, and they've been decor for me since, sitting on a shelf with other pretty things. I guess I'm a cheap acrylic yarn girl at heart; I feel bad if I can't make something really nice with really nice yarn, and my skills are just not that great with crochet or knitting, so I haven't had the heart to use it till now. Anyway, I decided to bite the bullet and use the Piedras skein for this hat, which once plopped upon Plummery's wee head, was perfect.

I confess, after the first time I made this hat a while ago I was quite elated and tried twice more to make it again, only to mess up both times, get discouraged, and quit knitting for a while again. But I've been practicing my knitting rather a lot the past couple of weeks. I've made two dishcloths and this hat, and I was so pleased with myself that I decided to make the hat again.

This yarn looks and feels like bubblegum. So soft.

So far, I haven't messed up and been unable to fix it. I've "tinked," I've had the needles slip out of the loops twice and had to carefully re-insert. Knitting, man. It's stressful.

I have yet to block anything I've knitted; it's just something I don't understand as of yet, and will have to research on YouTube to figure out.

When I went out to the table, I found my mom decorating cookies. How cute are they? My mom is the literal cutest. I need a cookie decorating label for this blog. You don't know how often we decorate cookies in my house.

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indigo girls

Drew and I looked kind of twinny today.

I'm mostly a natural girl. I don't wear makeup very often and I've never had dyed hair, except for some Manic Panic in high school, aeons ago. But since I've been needing a hair cut for a long time (it was down to the small of my back, when long hair stops being "pretty" long and starts veering into "creepy religious hairstyle" long for me), I decided to ask my hairstylist aunt for a trim and to bleach some streaks into my hair so I could put some random cotton candy pink in. She sweetly one-upped that, gave me a style shorter than I've had in years, and put some temporary indigo in so I could have some bright unnatural color in there while I was waiting for my pink dye!

This is a super reflective color (I practically have a purple halo when I am in sunlight, but it looks blue sometimes and violet other times) and with my super pale skin and very dark hair, I can look very easily gothy. But this isn't too much for me, as long as I don't fill my eyebrows too dark or go overboard on the eyeliner, and it will wash out so I can put in my pink.

It's really perked my spirits for my hair to be less weighty and to do something fun and random with it.

Wow, Drew, I feel such a connection with you right now, my little blue girl!

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