but i can't go naked!

sanj came over this evening to do That Thing She Does, and now that she's gone, I have maybe 1/4 the clothes I had when she got here.  Some have gone home with her to see if ellen_fremedon can make any use of them; many, many more have gone into sacks to take to the Goodwill.  (I should probably do this tomorrow so the bags don't sit here for ages.)  ("I'm sorry about your clothes", said sanj, "but they didn't fit you.")  Of what remains, easily a third is in a place set aside to be altered as and when I can afford it.

[whimpr]

in other news:

Sure enough, now that all the singing I'd committed to is over for now, the cold has come all the way in and my voice is pretty much shot.  I sing in a different register than I speak, so while my speaking voice is quite hoarse and creaky I can still make singing-type sounds, but I can't properly sing.  Still, it's good that I can make any sounds at all, given the way my head feels (which is dry and scratchy, not painful at all, but you know how you can tell before you even try that you're not going to be able to produce anything vocal for a while?).

yay!

It is good to finish things.

Recall that a couple of months ago, I began a Fibonacci Hufflepuff scarf for sanj.  ( Here it is. )

This is a double Fibonacci sequence -- 2-2-4-6-10 instead of 1-1-2-3-5 -- and my original plan was to go 2-2-4-6-10-16-26-42-68-110-110-68-42-26-16-10-6-4-2-2 (bold being black and plain being yellow), but along about the yellow 42-row stripe I realized I wasn't going to have enough yellow to do the 110-row stripe, much less come all the way back down.  I bought another ball of yellow yarn (that was the eBay thing with the good seller I bought a couple of weeks ago), did some math, and worked out that I wouldn't be able to finish it according to my original plan even then; so I changed the plan.  New plan:  2-2-4-6-10-16-26-42-68-110-178.  The resulting scarf is, what, sanj, over seven feet long?, which is plenty (I find 6' to be only just long enough, so anything longer is better).

And while I didn't have enough leftover yarn to make the second half of the scarf I'd intended to make, I did have enough left over to make ( this matching hat: )

I made this according to this pattern, the worsted weight version, sizing it up to an 80-st caston because either all patterns are made by people with v. small heads, or everyone I know has a big giant head, or I knit crazy tight, or some combination of these.  The Fibonacci sequence here begins after the cuff:

CO 80 st and join without twisting (for ribbing, I use a modified long-tail cast-on so that not only does the cast-on create a row, the row it creates is ribbed; it's just a matter of casting on alternate stitches from the loop on your index finger rather than your thumb, and I was very pleased to find it and teach myself to do it [g])
K1 P1 for 6 rows
increase by eight stitches, evenly spaced, by lifting the bar between the stitches below and knitting into that stitch (the pattern called for this to be done in the last row of ribbing and to knit into the back of the stitch; I did it in the first row of stockinette and worked into the front, so sue me) - this is the first yellow row
knit 1 row
knit 2 rows
knit 3 rows
knit 5 rows
knit 8 rows
knit 13 rows
decrease: *k9, k2tog* around
knit 2 rows
*k8, k2tog* around
knit 2 rows
*k7, k2tog* around
knit 2 rows
*k6, k2tog* around
knit 2 rows
*k5, k2tog* around
knit 2 rows
*k4, k2tog* around
knit 1 row
*k3, k2tog* around
*k2, k2tog* around
*k1, k2tog* around
*k2tog* around
(this is all a slight deviation from the pattern, in order to make the black crown of the hat 21 rows in keeping with the Fibonacci sequence.)
finish.

I am very pleased, and expect that this is the default hat I will make in the future, because it is super cute!