FO: Pink Hat

A few days before the ravelympics started I cast on for this hat that I have had my eye on for a while. Ever since I saw the Side slip cloche hat I knew I had to make it for my self!

And I had just enough Rose Quartz Twisted left over from my FLS to make it. Or so I hoped. After I knit the band around the base, then picked up the stitches around the edge and did the increase row I started to worry that I wasn't going to make it.


The little ball of yarn I had was getting smaller and smaller.... and while I was fairly sure I had enough I just wasn't POSITIVE because I really had no idea how much yarn I had left. So I increased the needle size from the suggested size US 5 up to a US 7 and got back to work. Of course I ended up with loads of yarn left over! (Now I'm trying to figure out what to do with a baseball size ball of yarn)

This is the first hat I have ever had that wasn't fitted at the top but is instead a little loose. I really like it! It's also the first time I knit a hat by knitting the band around the base then picking up the stitches along the edge and knitting the rest. I like this technique and it isn't nearly as hard as I always feared. I'm just not a big fan of picking up stitches but I'm realizing that it isn't nearly as hard as I always tell my self it is.... and it's totally worth it.

It came out perfectly and really I can't even tell that I upped the needle size by two! Of course I just love the ruffles on the side (I just might be on a ruffle kick here) and I love the softness of this pink.

So here are the specs:

Pattern: Side slip cloche by Laura Irwin
Yarn: Twisted from BMFA in Rose Quartz
Needles: Size US 5, 7
Mods: I used size 7 needles after I picked up the stitches around the boarder and did the first row of increases. This was to stretch the yarn as far as it would go!

It's Pink and It's Sparkly

I never thought that the Pink Range Rover Sport could be out done.

Well I was wrong. W.R.O.N.G.

Feast you eyes on this pretty


That's a Hummer H3. A hot pink sparkly H3. In the picture it's hard to tell but it's got a hot pink under coat with a sparkly, glittery over coat.

Seriously. Again, what are people thinking when they do this to their ginormous, excessively capable SUVs? I bet the guy that owns this Hummer saw the Hot Pink Range Rover cruising the streets and thought too him self. "Now THAT is nice! I will do that to my hummer.... Only I will make it better. I will make it sparkle."

I wonder what his girlfriend thinks. If he even has one.

Pink what???

Ahhh just when I thought I had seen it all with a Bling Bling Refrigerator, I see this:

It's a Barbie Pink Range Rover Sport. This is serioulsy something I would expect to see in a pink box in the toy isle of Carrefour. But nope, this was sitting just meters away from my front door today and let me tell you it's life size. What's even better is that I'm willing to bet it's a guy's Range Rover. I guess black or blue or even white wasn't good enough for him. He thought to himself "No this Range Rove Sport was meant to be pink and I am the man to do just that!!"

I wonder what the resale value is for a Pink Range Rover Sport?