today, while on the bart, i realized that i don't have a large project in my life at the moment. the last few years have been lots of planning and preparing - a trip or three here, a wedding there, a city move over there, and a new career move times two. the current lack of something to do is making me antsy. i feel like i should be doing something with my time. something good. only i don't know what.
so until i figure it out, i make random shit. yesterday my pals at bellasugar posted something about knitted headbands. i've been wanting to make one, and this seemed like a good excuse. so i went home, made up a pattern, and a few hours later, ta da. i made this.
Here's the prototype pattern. It needs some work. Mostly it needs fewer stitches and a better ribbing. My fat head is about 24" around, so I cast on 96 stitches of a worsted weight wool (if I do it again, i'll probably only cast on 80) on size 10.5 needles. I [knit 8, purl 8] to end for 3 rows. Then i did a stockinette stitch for 10 rows, then i did [knit 8, purl 8] for 3 rows and bound off. Then i sewed up the edges and crotched a random flower. Finally i sewed the flower over the seam to hide it. It could be better, but like i said it's a prototype. just make sure the ribbing matches up (although i would recommend a ribbing of 4 instead of 8, i thought the 8 was too wide) and whatever you do will be fine.
ps. if you have any ideas on good things i should be doing, let me know. if not, i will keep on crafting and continue my downward spiral into oldladydom.