Rockin' short hair and too many parentheses
To celebrate the beginning of Project Spectrum April today, I stopped at Loft in Nagoya, my favorite store that is full of stuff that I never knew I needed before. I actually had my haircut nearby and was initially determined not to go into the store but just to snap a shot of the sign. Next thing I knew, I had found some pens and a notebook that I needed. And a few other things. But here is more to be excited about (besides the fact that it is going to be cold and rainy at outdoor sumo tomorrow. You know what that means, right? I might be able to break out the thrummed mittens this season after all!).
Last night I finished my mini-clapotis! Perfect timing, too, because it snowed this week and was just cold enough today to justify wearing this on my little jaunt in the city. Turns out that it's not quite as mini as I imagined, and it has all the length and just a little less of the width of a full-sized specimen.
Project specs (I really had to dig in my yarn basket for this stuff)
Yarn/Pattern: Kate's Clapotis in Silk Garden (Fine), color 101, a little under three balls (it's not itchy!)
Needles: size 7 clover bamboo circs (it's a good thing I measured these because I just noticed that I switched my leaf lace shawl from size 6 addis to said size 7s by accident. Why is everything I want to knit on size 6 needles these days!?).
Time taken: Hardly any!
So to recap, shopping at Loft + snow at the end of March + new scarf and a new haircut = glamour shots in the bathroom at Starbucks. Got it?
Have a fun weekend!
Comments
Great haircut! And I love the mini-Clapotis -- looks great. I have three skeins of Silk Garden in my shash -- you got me thinking :-)
Posted by: Kathy | April 1, 2006 08:52 PM
Lookin' good!
Posted by: Carole | April 1, 2006 09:22 PM
I'd call that a perfect day! You look fabulous in it all!!
Posted by: margene | April 1, 2006 10:40 PM
Carole took the words right out of my mouth...*Lookin' good!*
That's a great haircut! And I like the Clapotis in the SGL. Maybe that's what I was waiting for.
Posted by: Mom | April 1, 2006 11:12 PM
You're stunning and so is the haircut and the scarf. Clever you, the Starbucks bathroom photo!
Posted by: Norma | April 1, 2006 11:13 PM
cute 'do!
Posted by: hillary | April 2, 2006 01:12 AM
That's a failsafe equation you've got there. Very cute!
Posted by: anne | April 2, 2006 01:24 AM
Great mini-Clapotis.
And I think it's FaBuLOus that you took a galmour shot in the Starbucks bathroom, clever!
Posted by: Carrie | April 2, 2006 02:59 AM
great hair cut, so cute and with that scarf your totally stylin!
Posted by: pixie | April 2, 2006 09:11 AM
Cute haircut, great Clappy, yarn stalking and a Starbucks bathroom.
That's what I call living the high life!
Posted by: Laurie | April 3, 2006 05:33 AM
Loft!!! Another place I didn't get to go. Eeennnvvy.
Okadaya in Shinjuku was fun! If you're ever in the area, you might want to stop in their five floor fabric store. It snowed on me in Kyoto, right after a few sakura opened.
Super cute haircut.
Posted by: freecia | April 3, 2006 08:39 AM
What a great new haircut, and the new Clapotis is splendid! You look fab, Molly!
Posted by: Lolly | April 3, 2006 11:24 PM
i LOVE the hair- looks amazing!
The scarf kicks ass too, of course, but the hair is really cute. :)
Posted by: maeve | April 4, 2006 01:27 AM
Love the haircut, and the scarf and coat look very chic!
Posted by: lauren | April 4, 2006 03:41 AM
I love the cut! And mini-clappy looks great with that coat! It's about 80 degrees in Georgia right now, I can't even imagine wearing a coat :)
Posted by: Anne Marie | April 4, 2006 05:29 AM
love the cut and the mini-clapotis! love me some Loft too . . . it's on my list of things Japan needs to export to N. America...
Posted by: megan | April 4, 2006 06:57 AM
woo hoo for thrummed mittens wearing! love the hair and the clapotis.
Posted by: kris | April 4, 2006 05:52 PM
Dude. the hair looks SO good. And the mini-clap is fabulous. You are so stylin'!!
Posted by: Carrie | April 4, 2006 10:35 PM
LOVE the hair and the scarf! and the loft sounds like a great place to shop!
Posted by: lori | April 5, 2006 05:21 AM
Awesome hair, and I love the noro for clapotee.
I just recently chopped off my hair too. I love it short.
Happy knitting
Posted by: Charisse | April 5, 2006 09:36 AM
Love the pic! Sounds like great fun, and the Clapotis looks good, too!
Posted by: sarah b. | April 6, 2006 04:56 AM
GIRL'S GOT IT GOIN ON!!!!
shhhpankaaaayyyyy!!!Now I'm really thinking of a new haircut.You and that mother of yours ...So! Very!
Posted by: schnoobie | April 6, 2006 10:43 AM
I miss Loft! I worked in Chiba from 95 - 98 as an eikawa teacher and used to got to the Loft store in Shibuya all the time... It was the cheapest place to buy smelly votive candles :)
Jo
Posted by: Jo | April 6, 2006 12:11 PM
your hair looks great, girl!
Posted by: carolyn | April 12, 2006 10:04 PM
good idea making the mini. i have been thinking about going clapotis but... i like the scarfy looking style much better.
Posted by: lily | September 4, 2006 01:08 PM
Hi. Love the mini-clap. Can I ask you what you did to make it smaller? (I'm new with reading/using patterns!)
Posted by: Robyn | March 27, 2007 01:09 PM
My grandma has a short haircut like that! It's very professional and mature and will be good for your career.
Posted by: Yuri | September 30, 2007 02:53 PM