the granny square blanket = finished (mostly!)

seems like it's been ages since i posted anything i've created!
remember the granny square blanket i started way back in june? well, i finished it sometime around the end of august. my memory is a bit hazy as to the exact date of completion, but i'm pretty sure i put it all together sometime right before we moved to our new place. which would mean late august, if my post project calculations are right.
here it 'tis:

i was intending to felt it, but i don't have a top-loader washing machine available (all the ones in our new building are front loaders...shucks!). so i may just leave it be. it's seen here on our bed, which was it's intended destination from the beginning. i am planning on making some pillow-sham type things for some of the pillows and adding a few more bargello pillows, maybe this jonathan adler one. i like how everything else it pretty modern in the area (the bed frame, the quilt, the shelf), with all these hand-wrought touches about. a tried and true to me visual juxtaposition.
overall, i am really happy with how it turned out...and that i had the patience to stick with it and finish the whole thing. actually, admittedly, i was chomping at the bit to finish the damn thing, so obsessed, that any potential procrastination really didn't figure into the granny-square blanket project at all, okay? OKAY?? (yes, i am a bit type-a.)

a journey

around the town in my metallic green canvas pointy-toed sneaks (a find from antwerp, belgium):

(used) stuff + finished (knits)

two knitted things i've recently completed:

i'm mad about cowls...as anyone who's lingered around me for any decent length of time knows. they are great because they brainless knitting projects for me...just a tube of knitting, essentially. also, they are a great way to use up small bits of yarn (which i have boatloads of), while making a "scarf" that's not really a "scarf". and of course, they are a fun way to play with color, or texture (from the yarn itself or through the use of pattern stitches).
this particular cowl is made from some tomato red silk and rayon ribbon yarns i found at one of my favorite local yarn shops, imagiknit, which is located in the castro, and happens to be within dangerously close walking distance of my house. the fuchsia ribbon yarn also has some red sequin carry-along thread yarn knitted together with it, hence the bit of spangliness you might see flashes of.
i love adding sequin yarns or metallic yarns with other yarns into my cowls...it makes it feel like a piece of sparkly fiber jewelry rather than a scarf.
i paired with a strapless lace 80s cocktail dress i thrifted at goodwill, haight street, SF, yesterday.
and here's yet another feather and fan scarf. also sort of a mindless, fun knitting project. i've made three of these so far.

made from cascade 220. such an easy, smooth yarn to knit with, that comes in a myriad of colors and is extremely affordable...i love it for those reasons and more.

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some recently acquired things i'm completely grooving on:
the most perfect cloth napkins ever, ever, EVER. a birthday gift from my new pal lisa. she is *awesome*.

this flower facinator from the ebay shop i mentioned in my recent cocktail hat post:

and this crazy-fish emblazoned vest, from goodwill, on haight street. i'm still pondering whether to restyle it or turn it into a cool pillow. either reincarnation would please me equally: