It is with sadness that I have to announce my first knitting casualty:





Yep.

I busted my first Denise needle.

I was at work on lunchbreak working on Dulaan hat number 3 and had just started decreasing the crown when I suddenly heard this loud *snap* and my knitting slacked. Thankfully since I was at work, I was able to grab my cup of paperclips and start snagging stitches before they unravelled too many rows down. On break I knitted all the dropped rows back up and stuck the hat on a set of dpns I had with me.

Here it is finished:


Not being the biggest dpn lover, though, I knew that in order to reach my first goal of five hats for the month I was going to have to get a new temporary circular needle until my Denise gets replaced. I put in an emergency call to Yardgoods in Waterville and they set a 16" bamboo one aside for me to get this morning.


Either they don't have many people calling ahead to put stuff aside, or I must have sounded really... cracked... on the phone because the clerk at the counter knew me by name when I said I had called last night. I didn't even have to tell her what it was I had reserved for me. I also grabbed a couple of skeins of...

so I can dye my first pair of socks this month! Woot! I chose this brand since not only is it superwash, but the clerk mentioned that quite a few people had used this brand to dye with koolaid and they always came out beautifully. We'll see how it works, I guess... the worst that can happen is that I will dye my hands and arms permanently in Berry Blue or something. Or the cat... or the counter... or the kids.

My mom has rallied the "Knifty Knitter" folks that she works with to also help with the Dulaan Project and gave me this group of hats that she and her co-workers have made in the past couple of weeks. I can't wait to see how full the box will be.