best. summer. ever.

Today's phrase you can be proud of yourself for saying only if you are a three-year-old or a foreign language-learner:
"He encontrado la billetera de Novio!"

I have several FO's to show off — all of them, actually, as none has ever been photographed and shown off to an adoring public. They include:

• my first project, a scarf in pimptastic purple eyelash yarn for my mother (I am repentant, but that's the yarn she asked for)
  
• the ballband dishcloth, the knitting of which was almost a spiritual experience
  
• the drawstring gift bag, to hold gift yarn and needles for my boyfriend's little sister, who is learning
  
• the first Caps to the Capital hat, complete with baby's (my) first (horrifically ugly) sewn seam
  
• and the second ballband dishcloth (lovely soothing airport-knitting, especially once I — much to my surprise — memorized the pattern)

I'm working on my second Caps to the Capital hat — an unqualified pleasure thanks in part to the yarn, which I'm completely in love with. It's superwash wool and it knits up into this almost cushy fabric... glorious. Altogether, this yarn (one ball Wisteria and one Deep Ocean) will make about four little hats (10" diameter, because third-world babies tend to have low birth weight... I can't even talk about it).

In the same KnitPicks order that brought the Cushy Superwash Yarn of Joy, I also got several sizes of double-pointed needles. Oh boy. I am attempting to muster up the courage and know-how to make my first full-sized hat (the Caps to the Capital hats are knit flat. In 1x1 ribbing and stockinette. Make one, you could do it in a catatonic state and finish it before you come to).