knitty! knitty! bang! bang!: Calorimetry

I have been stalled out on a lot of big projects that I want to start these days because I don't have the right sized needles. I have this huge mess of circs and dpns, all bound up nicely into the needle holder that my mom made for me, but they are still very poorly organized. The Japanese sizes and the American ones all mixed together... ugh. One of these days I am going to get them all together and input all the data into that handy ravelry chart. Until then, I will move forward with the less desirable mish-mash system.

While I was waiting for some new yarn to arrive I decided to cast on for some smaller items that I have been dying to make. It is just getting cold here, and while winter is no where near here yet, my office is already freezing. I started Calorimetry in the hopes that it would double as a "headband" that I could wear to work, to keep my ears cold in the frigid office. The whole thing took me about two days to complete, not counting the time I was waiting to find a button.

Look at this baby! I never would have picked this flowery button for that yarn if I hadn't brought the headband with me--but this button jumped out at me and it turns out that it suits the knitted fabric pretty well. The headband might be a little thick to pass as indoorwear at work this winter, but it was so fast that I could easily whip out another, smaller one when it starts to get REALLY cold.