I've been busy!

I have! Well, Hubbie had holidays in the last weeks of August and we decided we'd visit home (in Albany!) and then go back to Kellerberrin, pick up our little caravan and head off to Kalbarri where Hubbie's parents were staying with their caravan. Being a bit Asperger's like youngest son the idea of leaving home where all my things are makes me fairly anxious and apprehensive but, ah well....off we go!

See? Don't I look eager to go??

Anyway, I enjoyed the first part, mainly because I got to spend as much time as I liked with my Mum and Dad and I like that since Dad is a bit like me and Jordan, fairly daubed with the Aspergers brush! and my Mum's the friendliest, most outgoing person I know of except my eldest son! Genetics is such a tricky bugger!

While I was there though I'd started knitting these simple beanies for a knit4charity group in W.A. asking for teenage boys beanies and mitts. They're just a reverse garter stitch brim and simple stocking stitch body with a basic 4-corner decrease.  Really easy, mindless knitting and a great way to use up small amounts of stash yarn. Gives a great edge to the beanie. Anyway, I started knitting a few of these. I could complete 1 a day and was pretty stoked with that.

Anyway, returned home, hitched up caravan, packed up a bag of stash and two dog's and headed off to Kalbarri. Considering we didn't head off till 12 in the afternoon, we knew there was next to no chance of us making it the Kalbarri that day. So we didn't try and stayed in Carnamah! Which was really nice. I never thought I'd miss the place when I first moved there but it was really nice to return, even for just one night!

Always loved the mural on the only supermarket in town!

Hubbie and Dogs play in Carnamah Sports Oval

So next morning, up and off to Kalbarri! It really is a pretty place and the caravan park we stayed at was really nice but being the social cripple I am, I stayed in the caravan mostly. Not of course when the dogs were all there but fortunately they stayed mostly with Hubbie's parents in their much larger van and annex!

Not much room in the van!

Kalbarri Sunset!

So we had a lovely holiday. Hubbie thoroughly enjoyed his time with his parents and I didn't make a complete tit of myself by being overly reluctant to be in company because I didn't know what the social situation was supposed to be or have a huge hypo (because being slightly aspergers isn't enough, throw in Insulin-dependent Diabetic since 14 too!)  so I was pretty happy and I had knit so many of these cute beanies! While I was in Albany I'd bought a heap of DMC tapestry wool skein's Spotlight seemed to be getting rid of cheap and they were so many great different colours so I'd been doing some of the brims in them...and they were really great! Once we got home I was looking forward to finding out how many I'd managed to knit and give them a wash and final tidying up.

I had 12 beanies! I'd meant to knit 10 but clearly got ahead of myself. A couple of them had unavoidable knots and one had heaps because I used all the off-cuts of the tapestry wool knotted together to knit up the final beanie. I wanted to cover these up but first I washed them all, just to prove that none of them were delicate little flowers since I figured they'd need to stand up to fairly indifferent handling if they were going to teenage boys! They all passed!

Okay, I have...8 beanies?

No! I have...11?

Well, 11 not including scrap beanie :)

So once they were all dried I decided to sew little scraps of felt over the knots. I have HEAPS of different coloured felt so it made it really easy. Just little 1cm squares were fine for the one or two knots on some of the beanies but I went to town with the Stash Scrap beanie!

Front Side...

Join Side

Isn't it cute?? Hubbie calls it my Hippy Dippy Hat!. I reckon it works really well. There were lots of knots so this really was the only solution. I couldn't sew them all in without it showing really badly. But this way it's a great design feature!

I'm so pleased with this beanies and their many different colours and shades. But I wont be happy till I've knitted the same amount of mitts! 

This is why I say I knit compulsively! 

See you all later :)

Dx