Need....more....inventory

When I'm preparing for my Fall shows I hear my sister Denise's voice in my head -- 'Suzanne, you need MORE inventory!'  Every year I run low on products at the end of the three-day Charlevoix Apple Festival and my booth looks paltry.  I'm crankin' 'em out as fast as I can!

The other day I showed you the Slouchy Hat and wondered if it was slouchy enough.  I blocked it by washing it in the sink with Head n Shoulders w/conditioner and then placed it over a plate to make the crown spread out flat.  It looks much better now and is slightly slouchy, not hugely slouchy.  Some young lady will love it.

I also knit up this Scrunchable Hat yesterday:

It's another free pattern off of Ravelry.  I used the purple shade of Universal Yarns Chunky Wool, although I have to say, I didn't find it to be 'chunky'.  I used size 7 needles and knit a 1x1 rib for 1" before switching to the pattern:  Row 1 K2, P1, Row 2 K1, P2.  I think some other knitters crabbed about the decrease instructions but my guess is they didn't follow them carefully enough to get a good result.  Here's a close up of the stitch pattern:

I did some fulling at the stinkin' hot laundromat on Sunday, watching the World Cup Finals as everything swished around in the washing machine.  I finished this hat:

I knit that one using Cascade Pastaza, a 50% wool/50% llama fiber that felted kind of nobby, in a good way.  I think I'll embellish it with some leaves and a flower since it's a bit plain.

And finally for tonight, I also fulled the entrelac bag, now and forever known as Josephine, the bag of many colors:

and here's the reverse side (really, it IS different):

I like how the top of the bag has a scalloped edge.

 Here's a close up of the squares: 

and the bottom:

See last Friday's post for the bag pictures before I fulled it.  I think Josephine is one of my favorite felted bags -- I'm keeping her for my own use!

And lastly, I sure do wish I had taken my camera to work with me.  Out in front of my building they're doing major road reconstruction.  Just before the turn around light I saw a Lincoln MKS sitting in freshly poured cement.  Yep, right in the middle of a fresh spot.  He must have been impatient and didn't see exactly where to turn and bam!  Landed right in the middle of wet cement.  That car has to be totaled!  I know I would never want to drive it after that.