I completed my knitted braided cable headband.  It's made from Schulana Merino Cotton 135.  It's a soft and spongy yarn that doesn't itch me at all.
I love the look of the braided cables.  The cables also give the DK-weight yarn more thickness to keep my ears warm.  I opted for a three-stitch stockinette edge.

Here is the outside of the bit I put under my hair.  Not as beautiful as it could be, but it's hidden.

Here is the inside of the under-hair bit.  I wanted to make the under-hair bit as narrow as possible, which is why it's folded into a tube here.

I talked about all my cable tests before and mentioned that I wanted to have the cables come out of the ribbing in a cool way. I ended up not using ribbing under the hair so I could start with the least possible stitches.

Instead, I started with just the 4 stitches I needed to start each mini cable and put one purl between them.  As I started the cable, I added a second purl stitch to the ditch.  Each time I cabled, I added a stitch to the underneath column until each column had three stitches.

It's big on, but it has to be that big to cover my ears.  It's superwarm and comfy.  I've already had a chance to try it out!

Summers in San Francisco are chilly.  Even on warm days, the night brings a blanket of icy fog and wind.  A normal summer day starts with a cool foggy morning that clears to sunshine from around 11 to 3, then the fog starts rolling in around 4.

I totally feel for everyone who is dealing with the ridiculously hot summer this year.  I grew up in the Midwest and spent 4 summers in Philadelphia (more like Sweat-a-delphia!), so I know just how miserable summer heat can be.  I wish I could bottle up our chilly fog and send each of you a small bit to pour over your head when the heat gets to be too much.

This is a close-up of the far buildings in the photo below.  When the fog rolls in, it starts to swallow the buildings.  It's a fast process and you can see the fog blowing down the street in gusts of frosty wind.

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Here is the long shot.  Where we are standing, it was warm and almost too sunny.  BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT.  The sky in SF is a unique and amazing blue all the time, and in the summer the fog invades from the ocean like an arctic menace.  

I love the super creepy feeling of looking down the street and thinking, "Hey, where did Twin Peaks go?" and seeing the radio antenna sticking out of the fog.  I love getting caught in the middle of the swirling fog as it envelopes the city in an ethereal storm.  It's one of the only times you can see the forces of nature acting on a huge scale but in a completely non-destructive way.

This is my favorite fog photo of Andrew's, fog encased Alcatraz.  For reference, here's where Alcatraz is located.  It's a tiny island in the bay.   This one was weird because that finger of fog was reaching in from the Golden Gate Bridge and was blowing over Alcatraz very quickly, like a car in a wind tunnel.  And the whole rest of the sky was clear, only Alcatraz was covered.  Creepy cool.