Banded

I forget if I mentioned this (since, you know, I've had oh-so-many posts so far), but I'm on a major headband kick right now. I do this a lot - I knit one thing for the first time, and then fall in love with it and want to do fifteen of them, trying different patterns. I've done this with afghans, with scarves, with hats (oh, how I love hats!), and now, headbands. I think it's that once I do one, I realize how easy it is, and there are so many cute patterns out there. The really nice thing about headbands is that they take very little time. I worked on one over the weekend I was in New Jersey (so, two weekends ago), and it was my first one, my first cabled project, and a bit more substantial, so it took me longer. But then my second one? It took me about forty minutes. That's, like, nothing. I made another one last night because I wanted a headband in a different color (over-buying yarn for all those afghans I've been doing is really coming in handy now!), and it's so quick and such an easy pattern. It's called Saving Grace. Awesome. I love it. So so so quick. (The only difference is that I don't sew the ends together. I make and add a twisty cord to each end, so that way I don't have to worry about it not fitting quite right, or stretching out too much.)

Voila.

In between those two I knitted a couple other headbands, in various patterns. It's so great. And I'm also continuing work on the afghans. Getting close to done the one (I'm about two-thirds of the way done; I just added the last two skeins tonight - it's knit holding to strands of yarn together), and then I have the second one that's partially done once I finish this one. Not sure how much I'll get done this weekend, as my not-so-baby bro is coming up tomorrow night for the weekend. But we might have lots of sitting time on Sunday as we wait for fireworks and such, so maybe I'll get to work on it more then. Either way, I don't see why I can't have it finished by next weekend at the latest. Once these two afghans are knocked out of the way, I think I have a couple of hats and things I need to get done and given away. I'll have to look at the list I wrote a looooong time ago with lined-up projects.

I'm so excited, though. While knitting one of the other headbands, I noticed that the blog with the pattern had several other free patterns as well, and my goodness. I want to try them. Suffice it to say, assuming I have the ability, I know what I'll be giving at least a few people for Christmas. Well, sort of. Accompaniment, anyway. I also found a hat that I sooo wish I could make for my nephews, but I think it might be a little bit too "pink bunny outfit Ralphie's aunt made him". I don't want to put my nephews through that. But man. It's darned cute. As are they. Perfect fit, right? Well, we'll see. I might not even have time for it after the summer's over.

Knitting. It makes me so happy. I wonder if it's possible to get a knitter's high like people can get a runner's high...I firmly believe that it is. And believing is half the battle...or...something.