Trendy?!?

I have to admit that I usually resist fashion trends, and prefer to find my own style. Since my life has been pretty busy between work and school lately, my style is mostly comfortable (or whatever happens to be clean and sort of matches ;)

When I first started seeing hand/arm warmers I thought they were kinda silly. I do wear gloves during the winter to keep my hands warm, but I didn't really see the point of arm warmers.

But I kept seeing patterns for them, and have several friends who wear arm warmers (and knit or type when wearing them). So when I found a pattern that I liked (in Last Minute Knitted Gifts) I decided to give-in and make a pair. I also enjoyed having a project that I could finish in a reasonable amount of time! Now that I have started wearing my arm warmers, I have found that they do keep my arms warm, and I have more finger dexterity than I did when wearing gloves (useful for knitting and turning pages in a book). I've also gotten several compliments, and got talked into making a pair for a non-knitting friend.

When I decided to make another pair for myself in a different color, I decided to try the popular Fetching pattern. I hadn't tried cables before, and this did seem like a good way to get familiar with cabling. This was another quick project, and I got to try Rooster Yarn which was on sale at Dublin Bay Knitting Co.

So now I think I'm addicted to arm warmers! Next I want to make the Silk Sleeves from Leigh Radford's One Skein book; I had a ball of pink kidsilk haze I got on sale that would be perfect.

I guess my lesson was that it's ok to embrace fashion trends that you really like :) No sense avoiding something just because it's fashionable. Though I still maintain that fashion should be comfortable and practical as well as fun.