I was told that it wouldn't kill me to blog... Now I'm one of those people that always have to question everything I'm told, and in this case the only way to do that is to test the statement by, well, blogging. This is the same reasoning that caused me stick my tongue to the inside of the freezer door shortly after being warned 'if you stick your tongue to something really cold, it won't come off' (they were right...) .

Well, I'm not dead yet! so I guess I'll continue.

There's been lots of knitting going on here - maybe that explains the blogging shortage, I've got 3 unreported finished projects (one of which is blocking as I type). Though today I'm only posting about one of them (sorry).

Remember that little bit of pink cabling I showed in my last post? It's a hooded scarf, and here it is in all it's pink glory!

Animal was chosen as the model - he looks so good in hot pink...

This is knit from the pink merino I was given for Christmas and spun up some weeks ago. The hood seems to fit a 2T nicely. I didn't use a pattern, once I figured out how to carry the cable over the top of the head instead of around the base of the hood it was really very simple construction

After I added the tassel my dad dubbed it a "best detachable party hood"

" 'Now we are all here!' said Gandalf looking at the row of thirteen hoods - the best detachable party hoods"
-- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

(No it doesn't have a full cloak attached, but it's the idea )

The other name it's been given is "PINK! HAT!" - That would be what my almost-two-year-old-niece calls it anyway...