A Stroke of Genius

It's official, I'm pretty amazing. Just in case you were in doubt before. So as you may recall, I was/am knitting these socks for Andrea (right now she's reading this, shaking her head saying "oh geez, what now Jessie? I'm never gonna see these things, am I?) but I didn't really like them. I showed them to her over Thanksgiving and she said she thought they were fine and she looked forward to wearing them. I continued on with the knitting of them, but the longer the cuff got, the more awkward and cumbersom it became and the less I liked even looking at it, let alone working on it. Then today I had a stroke of genius (hence the title). The reason I wasn't a fan was because it was just too much. Too busy, too eh. So I thought to myself, simplify! I came up with this:

One full round of the Bamboo Stitch, and then a spiral of it up the rest of the cuff. One spiral from the front of the sock, and one from the back. Anyway, it might be hard to get the general idea since there's only half of one side finished, but I have high hopes. Let me just tell you, the picture in my head is pretty great.

The other thing I did today was to make myself a hat. Remember the hat that Grace made? Well, I completely fell in love with the yarn (which I think I talked about a couple days ago...but I'm too lazy to go back and check) so I bought several hanks, and this one is the hat I made for myself. My favorite color combo, brown and light blue (the colors actually look better in real life, but you know, cameras, lighting, etc). I should have taken into account the fact that my head is enormous and added a few stitches to it, but it works as long as I don't need for my hair to look great or anything.

My photography skills are exemplary. :)