Hello Knitty

Introducing Wavelength, my new cowl design.

A continuation of my love of stripes. It comes in two versions – short and long.

Coming soon.

If I was single and lived alone I know what my apartment would look like.

I would have learned to crochet ages ago and there would be granny square blankets everywhere.

All of the cross stitch I’ve done would decorate the walls. I can’t display it now because it contains some *ahem* colorful language.

Two words: decorative yarn.

My curtains would all be homemade, and none of them would match because there is way too much cute fabric and not nearly enough windows in this world.

There would be more cats.

And there would be many more decorations like this.

I’ve been meaning to make this sweet little button display since the spring of 2010 but never got around to it until this week. The template is a freebie from Design Sponge.

It took one piece of cardstock, 12 cute buttons, a needle and thread, and less than one hour. I won’t subject the Scientist to living in my idea of a swingin’ spinster’s pad, but I think he can handle the occasional crafty decoration.

Until I learn to crochet. Then all bets are off.

This, by far, is the best thing about Houston.

We visited Johnson Space Center on Saturday, which for a space nerd like me was both completely heavenly – the Scientist and I are touching a moon rock here -

and completely unsatisfying because I had to stay behind the glass and not play with anything in Mission Control.

Charlie checking out the mock up of the International Space Station in the Astronaut Training Center.

The full sized Space Shuttle simulator was being dismantled because there are no more manned space flights in this country. We’ve gone from pioneers in space exploration to space hitchhiker.

We couldn’t decide who would get to drive this awesome rover once we get to another planet.

The following pictures could all be captioned as Things I wanted to steal but couldn’t:

A moon rock

A piece of Skylab

The beginnings of my super awesome sandbox

We were able to see a Saturn V rocket, which were used during the Apollo era. Isn’t it sad that this technology is 45 years old yet it’s better than anything we’ve come up with since?

Charlie is ready to blast off

Several months ago I blogged about a yellow cowl I was knitting that was inspired by a truly gruesome moment in English history.

Not long after the original post I finished the cowl, but it’s only been in the last couple weeks that I finally was able to get decent photographs of it. I love this cowl so much. It has a great story and is the perfect length – loose, but still warm and cozy. And since it was knit out of MadelineTosh Vintage you know it’s super soft too.

I usually don’t allow myself to wear a project until after it’s been photographed, but I admit I snuck this one out of the house a few times.

Always with this outfit too. I feel very comfortable dressed like this. Before knitting this cowl I probably would have told you I liked long cowls the best, but now I’m not so sure.

Hello Knitty’s Happy Beheading cowl – Ravelry link

I have no idea, but thankfully my kind reader, Andrea, does and she translated the pattern for me.

This marks the sixth language that Multnomah has been translated into! So cool! If you’d like to download a copy of the German translation it’s available here.

If you’re interested in the other translations of Multnomah you can find them under the Multnomah Miscellanea tab at the top of this page, and if you would be interested in providing a translation in another language please let me know!