When my hair is long, I want it short. When my hair is short, I want it long. So, when I feel the urge for short hair so strongly that I wantonly go out and get it cut off, I immediatly miss my long hair and spend the next three years growing it out again.

I don't like wearing hats a lot during the winter because I wear my hair in a ponytail when it gets to be long enough [and the following two and a half years], and hats and ponytails don't really go together well. So when I saw Knitty's Calormetry, I thought that it would be a nice solution - something cozy for my ears, but something I won't have to keep messing with my hair to wear. Plus, I was very intrigued by short rows in general after having read many magical things about the technique. This pattern uses short rows, and it's small enough that it's not a lot of time wasted if I effed up the short rows.

Relaxing on some of it's kin.

Detail of the short rows. I love and hate short rows. I love the way they work [they are indeed magical], but I hate actually doing them. It's not a difficult technique by any means, but there's a lot of back-and-forth, back-and-forth that it doesn't take long for me to get a bit lost.

Buttoned. I love the combination of that button with the heathery, grainy yarn.

On my big ole head. Even though I have what JD calls a fivehead, it seems that my Calormetry is too wide for my head. If ever I made another one, I'll knit less rows before starting the short rows. Remember that, Ashley, less rows.

Stats:

Yarn - Lion Brand Wool-Ease? I'm pretty sure it was Wool-Ease, but I can't remember the name.

Needles - My favorite, CPY size 8 bamboo straights