A Quick Knit and Growing Peeps

After the marathon knit of the draft-stopper, I needed something I could whip out and have immediate satisfaction before starting another longer knit. I am not the fastest knitter by far - I get easily distracted, spacey, and sometimes sleepy when I knit - I can't knit for hours on end unless a good girl friend and a lot of coffee is involved and around here, there are always a million other things to be done. Yet I love to sit down in the evenings, sometimes in front of the TV, other times by myself, and knit my troubles and stresses away.

So, I did a super-quick seed-stitch headband. I started it on Sunday and thought I would finish it that day but, refer back to paragraph 1. I ended up going to the tack shop in search of a bridle for Jetta, grocery shopping, buying new chairs for the deck, putting together said chairs...Get the point? The knitting didn't get done. Yesterday, I worked a little but was just wiped out after a school Monday. Today it got finished rather quickly. So, here is the cutesy little headband - knit on size 8 needles with nothing-too-special acrylic yarn - Caron's Simply Soft in Autumn Red.


I am a big fan of the seed-stitch pattern - I like the pattern of the little 'seeds'


Watch out! Professional headband model in the makings!

In 'farm news' the chicks are growing like crazy. Most of them have their little wing feathers in but are still fluffy every where else. They are getting fast too! It's a 2-man operation to catch one for a health check-up. We should get the other batch next week. We'll probably put the first 5 in a separate box and let the 15 new ones have the big box to themselves.




Check out my new fancy feathers!