Third Time

You know how they say the third time is the charm?  Yeah, this is the third time I've cast on this hat. 

Well, really the fourth, if you count the time I cast on before I ripped the whole thing out, but this is the third time I've cast on since deciding to use the yarn doubled.  

The first time, I used one of the needles from my new interchangeable set, only those cables are just a touch too long for these hats.  It just seemed too stretched out, so I frogged it and cast on with one of my Knit Picks circs.  

I figured using my preferred Chinese Waitress cast on would be too difficult to do with two strands of yarn, so I used the knitted on cast on instead.  I didn't like the way that looked, because that's the problem with this particular cast on.  It's very loose and loopy.  So I frogged it one more time. 

I finally put on my big girl britches and cast on with the CW.  It turned out not to be too terribly hard -- I just had to be careful to pick up both strands when I was drawing the loop over.  I had to re-do a couple of the cast on stitches, but we got there in the end.  

Now we're plugging away. 

In the meantime, I'm still making progress on the other hat I have OTN.

Yarn: Euphora Knits

Colorway:  Illegible

Pattern:  Sockhead, by BoHo Knits 

Needles:  US 2.3/3mm

Model:  Evil Incarnate

In other news, they posted yesterday that the plant would be working five hours tomorrow to make up for the time they lost when the electricity went out Monday.  At least those who didn't put vacation in will get paid for that time.  Those who did were given the option to change their day, but I don't know how many people would do that.  I'm not, I can tell you that much for sure. 

Since I'm not working, I decided to go ahead and get my shopping done, so I wouldn't have that hanging over my head all weekend.  Yes, I bought more sweet potatoes.  

But why?  Well, I'll tell you.  Because I want leftover sweet potato casserole.  I'm also going to buy a box of Stove Top, and make my strawberry Jell-O salad, so I can have the leftovers.  I'm not going to buy a turkey this time, but I hope to bring home some ham from Cody and Brennan's.  

And I picked up the last piece of the puzzle for my decoration thing -- big ornaments. 

If you look closely, you can see there is a larger ball in the center to give the thing more body -- so to speak.  

Now that I have all of the components, maybe I can start putting this together this weekend.  

And finally, the coworker who was getting me the firewood says they about have it ready, so we penciled in for them to deliver it next Friday.  I said I'd get with him one day next week and finalize our plans, but it looks like that's one more thing I can mark off my to-do list. 

Times like this, I really wish I were able to multitask, because there are still a lot of things on that list. 

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go knit some more.

Laters.