Schedule Toss Up

Things I discover over time are sometimes the most interesting. For example, now that DH has located a job that requires several evening shifts during the week and weekends, The odd days he's home on a weekend, it throws EVERYTHING off. The laundry wasn't done in favor of a trip to the park. Dishes weren't washed in favor of a trip to the zoo. Putting the Things down for nap time in a separate rooms mean they go down much quicker. Normally, I prefer the letting them play in their room during nap time until an hour or two has passed before I separate them. On weekends that DH works, my goal is longer mental health time.  This weekend had a packed agenda for DH's weekend day off. We spent HOURS at the Birmingham Zoo.

Starting the Halloween Decorations at the Zoo. Scary!

My charity hat knitting gained a few rounds while watching the Things play in the splash pad. Yes the weather's getting a little cooler and we brought a change of clothes for the boys. First off, we went straight to where they get wet. Talk about funny times! Somehow I thought that when the boys got cold they would tell Mommy and Daddy. Wrong wrong reindeer. Eventually we convinced the boys to come out of the water so we could go see animals. They played long enough the latest hat gained a few rounds while I spent more attention to laughing at them.

Cascade Colorway Sixty Cables

Silly boys! Not only did we have a fantastic weekend, I finished a hat before the hat I took to the zoo! I modified Sixty Cables by Gabi Krisztian. Instead of 120 stitches, I cast on only 110. Then there were a few added decrease rounds thrown in for good measure because I had the yarn! Where the pattern tells you to cut the yarn and draw through the loops, I did a K2tog round and a knit row before drawing through the loops. So far, it fits my head and is done in some fantastic guy colors! I used Patons Kroy Sock FX in the Cascade colorway. The new hat taken to the zoo is roughly half done and is knit in the Patons Stretch Socks in the Taffy colorway. Hat #5 for the Podcaster Throwdown is a made up pattern based on Sixty Cables. I cast on 108 stitches, k1p1 for ~3" before increasing for a k2p1 rib. Crown decreases are yet to be determined.

Taffy Colorway