To cowl or not to cowl.

 

This is what I've started in February. I'm having major trauma with it though, because I can't decide what to do.  For some reason, I love the look of this on this on the model, but I'm pretty sure it isn't going to look like that on me.  

My thought process when I started went like this:

Oh! I love that!

She's cute.

Stupid cute girl with messy hair.

Why doesn't messy hair look cute on me?! It just looks messy!

I don't even wear brown. 

It'll have to be gray, of course.

I wear too much gray.

Claustrophobia. 

I'm in love with that cowl, but can't really stand stuff that close to my neck...

I'll make it bigger.

Wait, what if I don't even want it attached to the vest at all?

Shit.

How will I finish the neck if I do them in separate pieces?

I'll wear the vest more if I do it separate.

Does that mean I won't ever wear the cowl?

I'm pretty sure the whole thing would just be cuter if I lost 40 lbs. 

And had messy cute hair.

Shit.

What color shirt am I even going to wear under it.

So now, 

I'm almost done with the back and still don't have a plan yet. 

Shit.

January

 The first project of the year was redoing an old wardrobe I bought at the DI.

 

  It now holds all my recycle bins :)

Manny gave me the greatest/worst book for Christmas. It has sooo many good knitted bag patterns, so it's great, but bad because I want to make all of them!  I already have a terrible bag fetish, so all I really need is more bags....

The first one that caught my eye was this felted one. 

Ever accidentally washed a wool sweater?  Felting is like that, only on purpose. You knit something with wool loosely and wash it till the fibers bind together tightly.   It's kindof a crapshoot how it'll turn out, which I guess is part of the fun.

I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out.

This one is made from leftover yarn from the other bag. Taylor told me that she wanted a bag out of those colors, which I thought was pretty obnoxious, but I decided to make her one for her birthday.  I made up the pattern as I went and it actually turned out pretty cool. I hope she likes it!

 

 This pretty much sums up what I've been doing so far this year. With the nasty inversion we've had, going outside was like torture, so I stayed in under my electric blankie and ott light and knitted away. 

Thankfully, Jesus heard my depressed pleas for sunshine and had pity on me.

Today was gorgeous. Bring on spring time!