After spending so long on the Cathay Shrug, I've taken up a couple of quick knits to satisfy my need-to-finishitis. I cast on for a Calorimetry on Wednesday and was finished on Friday, how awesome is that!
here is the finished product... even though its much to hot to wear this now in the middle of an Aussie summer, I used the patons SWS gifted to me by my swap Buddie, it did exactly what i wanted/expected it to do:





but it only used 1/3 of the ball, so I have no idea what I'm going to do with the rest of it, I might have to see if there's enough for a panta headband.

But speaking of the whole summer thing, I wanted a small headband for the summer that will help hide my icky hair when I'm having a bad hair day (almost every day really!!). While sifting through the patterns on ravelry I saw a cool photo of someones Shedir only 1/3rd of the way through and thought it looked really cool and would make a good headband pattern. So what I did was took the first 20 or so rows and will end with two rows of 1x1 ribbing. I've got a 2nd row of the ribbing to go then I can cast off:





The yarn is from spotlight, its a yarn bee yarn that I cant remember the specific name of, its annoying because it has that silky type strand that wraps around the yarn and gets twisted and I have to keep pushing it down as i draw more yarn from the ball, but thats what makes the yarn look so cool when its knit up... catch 22 really.

I'll finish this tonight and then I plan on starting the orangina (again) with my egyptian cotton from ebay. Thats going to be another really long knit, its going to take me even longer than the shrug because its made up of a semi-complicated lace stitch that when you stuff up you dont realise until about two or three rows after you actually did it. There's going to be a lot of liflining and frogging here I just know it!!