This shall include the general non-sock happenings of October II: Which Turned Out To Be Not Such A More-Better October After All. The other thing that has happened on my knitting needles lately is this sweater:


No longer a swatch, it is now an impressive hill of slightly ordered green Ultra Alpaca. It is also complete to minisweater proportions, meaning that if I get permanently sick of it tomorrow I can cast off and have a nifty-if-useless hooded green bolero.

I’d taken to calling this sweater Swamp Thing, until I found out that every contentiously verdant knit on the intarweb is also called Swamp Thing. I mean, look at this. Yarnageddon, you win this round. I hereby change my sweater’s name to The Big Green, because this kid is awesome:


…especially as a vampire pizza delivery guy. That happened in the X Files.

From late First October until today at precisely 1:30, I was feeling some Big Green Burnout. I decided to engage in something a little bit more instantly gratifying. A hat or a scarf, perhaps? And so, just as Koolhaas is poised to topple Shedir from its many year reign as the internet’s It Hat, I jumped hard on that ol’ Shedir bandwagon.


Not bad, and I really like it in this blue-grey Felted Tweed. I think I heard that Rowan is discontinuing Felted Tweed, and I can’t think of a good reason for them to do that. Rowan, I don’t understand you anymore. I think we’ve grown apart, and I’m taking you off of my buddy list.

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Thanks, Mario, for finding the Patrick Renna Vampire photos. This entry would have been useless without them.