Needles & Hooks

Just a tiny post to say that my officemate is wearing a dark red/burgundy mohair lace cardigan with a big ruffle all around the edge. And I keep looking at it (she told me to stop staring at her chest!). And petting it. And thinking that maybe I need to buy some mohair….

Last night was the finale of Project Runway. One thing that has been mentioned around is that Kara Janx, eliminated in the last show before the 2-part finale had to put on a decoy runway show during Fashion Week. This was because the show where she was eliminated hadn’t aired before the runway show. So the producers gave her the same budget and had her develop the same number of pieces. She got the prestige and exposure of showing, but she didn’t have a chance at the grand prize.

Today I fished around to see what her collection looked like. There is a video at BravoTV.com, but you can only view it with Internet Explorer on a Windows box. I am a Mac devotee, so I couldn’t watch. But I heard good things and a quick Google turned up a page of photos.

Looking through them, I realized that more than half of the outfits have a matching knitted hat. They all seem to use chunky novelty yarns that look kind of fuzzy, almost homespun. Some have earflaps with braided ties, some don’t.

I found some close-ups (right-click on individual images for menu options to see them larger; go to Getty Images for more):

In this set, the colors in the knit hats coordinate well with the rest of the ensemble, and amazingly, don’t look out of place at all:

In this one, there’s a whole knitted cardigan: