Top Down!!

 Hello on this dark and rainy Saturday!  I hope this finds you well; we're good here.

We're supposed to get some sunshine here this afternoon, which will be weird - I don't think we've seen the sun for several days now!  Last night we had some really messy weather - sleet, rain, very heavy rain, wind, snow, and at least at one point - thunder and lightning!

So my commitment knitting continues on.  The gauge swatch has been lightly blocked and dried and is awaiting Oogyhubby's opinion of the fabric; I'm still liking the smaller needle.  I haven't done any calcs yet, but once we choose a needle size I'll need to dive into that.

I had an idea for the Samoyed hat; since there's a limited amount of this amazingly lovely yet super expensive yarn, I'm making the hat top down:

That way I can just pick up the blue alpaca/wool blend (that has shipped but not yet arrived) and keep going for the rest of the brim and lining.  I tried it on Oogyhubby last night and already he said it was quite warm!  (And the fit seemed good also!!)

I've also just started the Converging Lines Cowl in a purple alpaca with a small strand of metallic silver.  I  used both balls for the 280-stitch long tail cast-on - I'd rather deal with an extra end to work in than run out of yarn halfway through all of that!  It's a pretty straightforward pattern, so will be good distraction knitting.

In wildlife news - not a lot of deer sightings lately, but there is evidence they've been here - footprints, droppings, etc.  We also catch the occasional glimpse of the orange cat patrolling the shed.  Go get those varmints!!