Booze and Baby Hats

With another eventful and glamorous Saturday night is under my belt, I have little to show for this weekend except a few more GRE vocabulary words in my brain, a crappy batch of cookies in the freezer (which taste better as dough) and some beer and everything bagels sitting in my stomach. Oh yeah, and some overtime pay from work that will go towards funding my summer getaway to beautiful Schilitterbahn. 

One tangible takeaway from this weekend is my first knitting project in ages. I can feel my crafty flame being rekindled after months of dormancy (suck it GRE!). Since I know more babies at this point in my lifetime than ever before - including when I was a baby myself - I knitted a precious cotton hat. See below. 

I love the color, I love the yarn and I love the size 8 Addi's I knit them on. It was a pleasurable project that came together so quickly that I didn't even have time to take progress photos. I did however have time to enjoy a cold beverage during the process. Sure I could have snapped a few shots after I had to pull out the extra stitches at the top because the crown was too pointy (thanks beer), but why highlight my mistakes? Once it was done, I wove in the ends and couldn't help but look at the hat and think that it wasn't quite finished. 

The little blue hat was a blank canvas to try out intarsia or duplicate stitching, which I have always wanted to perfect. I have some bright embroidery thread that looks adorable with the color, and if I hold two strands of this thin thread together, it will look just as substantial as any other worsted weight yarn I could have used. 

But what should I duplicate stitch on to it? Since I used size 8 needles, the stitch height and width would be too wide to make any kind of word, like the obvious "baby" I wanted to stitch across the front. A heart, butterfly or letter might be pretty cute emblazoned (GRE!) across the brim. 

I'll let you know what I choose to put on there, but until then I just plan on celebrating the fact that I actually made something.

Where can I find these?

Meg and I stumbled upon these glasses in a store called Dressin' Gaudy (No, I am not kiddin') in east Texas. They have one lens that flip-flops from eye to eye along a hinge in the middle. I don't know what they are for, I don't know why they were invented, and all I know is that I have never not bought an item that I was so in love with as I was with these glasses in that magical store. I love them, and a year later, I still think of them and wish I had them. 

What would I use them for? One-eyed reading? General fanciness? An old lady's "camera one, camera two" scene from Wayne's World? The answer, yes to all of the above. So you can see why I need to find them. I don't even know what to Google in order to find them, hell, I even went to Bing, because my fellow humans must know where these are. If you know, please tell me. I'm in the mood to buy.