Headband
I guess I haven’t posted much at all this past month or so. I’m doing ok now. I was having a hard time for a while there, feeling pretty depressed and having some difficult things going on in my life as well as being pretty busy, and between those things I just didn’t have the energy to do much crocheting.
But I’m feeling a lot better this week. I had a good weekend, and it’s kinda rubbed off on the rest of my week. I’m trying to cope better with my personal stuff. And I really don’t mean to be all vague and cryptic, just not sure how much of what’s going on is wise to go into in public. But I am okay, nobody’s sick or anything like that. I’ll probably post about it before long.
Anyway, on a lighter note, I’ve been having a bad hair day since approximately January, when I decided I was going to grow my bangs out once and for all. I’ve tried to grow them out at least once a year for probably the past fifteen years; I got bangs cut maybe sixteen years ago and immediately regretted it. But I get to the point where they start to annoy me, then I chop them off.
This time I’ve stuck it out for four months, and I’m determined to stick with it until they’re grown out. I am sick and tired of having bangs. I have curly hair, and my bangs don’t curl the same as the rest of my hair, which means that half the time (even after taking a large-barrel curling iron to them to make them straight-ish and curl under a tiny bit) I end up looking like I let a chimp, or maybe a toddler, do my hair that morning.
Growing them out it’s gotten even worse. The bangs are now at the point where they hang in front of my eyes—that oh-so-fashionable sheepdog look—and it is highly irritating. Curling them under doesn’t work, they’re too short to push off to the side with the rest of my hair, and they curl at weird angles, and I just generally hate, hate, hate them.
So I made a headband. The pattern is from volume 2, issue 3 of the Crochet Me newsletter, but I couldn’t find it on the web site anywhere. If anyone wants a copy, I still have the newsletter, so I can forward it if anyone’s interested.
It’s on my head today, which complicated taking a photo of it (and I didn’t have the camera at home last night when I made it). I may take another photo later when I’m not wearing it. But here’s me, wearing my happy headband:
