a gift for Pops

17 June 2008

For Father’s Day I bought WD a light box with which to take photos of my handspun. (I have dreams of joining the Etsy ranks… please make room on the bandwagon.)

Right now, it’s sitting unopened next to the bed. I fear before the weekend it’ll get buried underneath a pile of dirty clothes. But I’m determined to unearth it this Saturday and document the stuff I’ve been spinning up.

In the meantime, thanks to a Father’s Day request from father himself, I’ve started knitting a hat for my Pops with some of the more decent handspun and it’s coming along pretty well. I cast on 84 and planned to make a simple 2×2 rib stocking cap, but the yarn is too bulky, so I had to start over with 64. I mean, the hat was freakishly huge. Even with the ribbing. Even with Pops odd-shaped noggin.

Now I’m knitting it from Crazy Aunt Purl’s Brangelina, which is a 4×4 brim and then stockinette stitch. I think it’ll be perfect.

Just don’t tell Pops the name. Not that he would know what it means, but if it came up in a crossword puzzle, I’d have some explaining to do.