Pink Elephants

A few days before my daughter's birthday last week ( yes there are pictures and we went neat places, which I will tell you about later) my husband found out about an Oktoberfest type shindig happening locally at the end of October.  He announced we were going. My response, "Fine. I want to get a pink elephant dress to wear".  He then said, "Well then I will wear my kilt". I smiled, said, "Fine, you do that" and then proceeded to buy a dress with pink elephants on it.
I am not typically a girl who likes wearing pink.  I have avoided wearing it for years. I prefer to wear green or black or even blue once in awhile.
But...I have a flask case from my great-grandmother that has a drunken pink elephant sitting in a fancy glass like a burlesque dancer. It's a cherished item that may have given me a weak spot for drunken pink elephants.
Pin Up Girl Clothing very kindly had three different styles to choose from with said intoxicated pachyderm on them and now Husband had given me an excuse to buy one(from one of my favorite shops whose dresses are worth every penny).  The dress got here, quickly and as amazing as promised, but as I've said, I don't really wear pink, what the heck was I going to put with it?  Not more black. The outfit would look monotonous.  Short, pink, lace gloves would play up the style of the dress and add a spot more color. Yarn stash to the rescue! I had two pink yarns in two different gauges with the lace weight being worked into short lacy fingerless mitts and the sock yarn will most likely become a snood. They aren't the same exact shades of pink, so it won't look all matchy matchy, but all three shades are on a bag with a burlesque theme that resides in my pile o' purses.  Win! Throw on some nude, black back-seamed stockings and black kitten heels I think I may have managed an outfit using pink!

In Anticipation of Sweater Weather

I have a confession.  I gave most of the cold weather tops I've knit to my daughter.  In my defense, they fit her better than they fit me.  I knit quite tightly and in the last year or two have finally figured out how to compensate for it, usually (see below).  On the up side, it means the need to knit myself more sweaters that will likely work better with my wardrobe re-work, frequently using already stashed yarn.  The down side is that it means my list of things to knit has grown by several pages.  It's become a bit daunting.  Occasionally, I will go through the list, weeding out what I think no longer works,  all too often adding a new thing that I think is perfect.
The rust colored sweater above is the Abalone by Hedgehog Fibres knit as part of a Stockinette Zombies knit along using some Cascade 220 I had shoved in a bin.
The green sweater still in progress is Irish Coffee by Baby Cocktails Thea Colman.   Again, using yarn I had in a bin. This time it's Patons Classic Wool.
The hat came about because I decided I should have practical accessories that not only match each other, but the stuff I would be wearing them with as well.  I chose the pattern Lee by Ysolda Teague using the yarn called for.  Gauge gave me a nibble on the behind with this project. The yarn was lighter than I expected, so I used the needle size called for.  This was stupid. With the way I knit, I should have gone up a needle size, so the hat, while gloriously soft and warm as well as being cute on...is also just a touch too small for even my head.  I will probably re-knit it on bigger needles, it was a quick knit the first go around, and give the first one away.
All this work to have clothes for when the season changes...it is so very worth it!