“Along the road less travelled by…speaks louder than words…about – uhhhh…bother.” Ran out of quotes, there. Anyway, I’ve done something very exciting this week. I submitted my design proposal to Interweave Crochet. They’re currently accepting submissions for their Winter 2007 issue, so that means that if they accept it, you’ll see it in…ah, just about a year. Wow. Print publications are sooooo slooooooow. Sigh. Oh, well.
In other exciting news, I finished winding my cashmere into hanks. See?

That’s 3,326 yards of cashmere, baby. I’ve only washed the three hanks on the left, so far, but that’s all right. Washing it makes a serious difference in the texture and feel (as compared to the kinky yarn, especially) but I won’t feel bad about storing it in an unwashed state they way I would have just chucking it into my closet all balled up. Anyway, I weighed it:

And it’s about 8oz, or 220 grams, of cashmere. And, since cashmere yarn goes for about a dollar a gram, that’s about $220’s-worth of cashmere. It’s so luxurious, too. Not bad for four dollars! (And a month and a half…) It’s a good thing I got it done: one of the projects I’ve promised Kim for Spring is due to be made out of this, and I need to get cracking. I just wanted the final stats on the sweater, and all of the yarn here together, before I broke into it.

I’m also making another hard hat for Max. The one you saw on Charlie yesterday was meant for Max; but you see, a hard hat should not hug the head. Therefore, it needs to be bigger than a Simple Circle Hat, but I wasn’t sure how to tell how much bigger. End result, Charlie got a new hat. Boys want to play dress-up, too, you know.