Twisted Commitment

We're expecting a big winter storm here in the Northeast this coming weekend, so after ensuring that we had sufficient milk and bread (well, in my case it's wine and pizza!) I also needed to make sure that I had enough knitting to carry me through.  This required that I make some commitments.

Firstly - I need to get over my hatred of bobbles, it will help me be a better person.  Some bobbles can be very helpful, and dare I say even attractive:

This is January Hat, and the yarn is Northampton.  I've just started the first row of the pattern. but you can already see the occasional cable and the frequent bobbles.  This yarn is great and hats are done before you even know what's happened.  I've got a few more skeins of this yarn so perhaps future month hats may be in order as well.

Given how much I've already done on the Ruana Redux, I feel like it's time to commit to the pattern - Veronika.  I've got a great design feature in mind once it all starts to come together.  In the meantime, it's tons of mindless knitting, which is mostly perfect.

Lastly, even though I have managed joining in the round more times than I can count, the one time I really didn't want to have to start over was with Fire Festival Hat (and all its many little stitches), yet behold the twist:

It may take being snow-bound to force the do-over.