Helmet Head, and other new adventures.
I whipped up this little ditty yesterday! The pattern can be found online at the Interweave Knits website. It’s one of the “Staff Project” hats in Winter 2005 issue. It’s the Ridged Helmet Hat (that’s a pdf file) designed by Anne Budd. Knitted with Knit Picks Andean Treasure in Lilac. Took about a ball and a half, and a few hours to spare. I like how it turned out! And it will keep the old ears warm when it gets cold outside. Now I need to start on one for my husband, since he was the one who specifically requested one of these in the first place. He actually looked through my Interweave knits and decided he wanted one of these hats. So I better get my ass started on his, or mine might just mysteriously dissappear.
Look! I made my first sock on two circs! Speaking of sock knitting, I must have been called by the knitblogger collective to knit socks this week…(See lolly’s post for details). It was actually a combination of being totally inspired by the excitement of Esther’s first circular-needle socks (I so need to learn how to knit two socks AT THE SAME TIME on two circs), and the fact that the instruction book on how to do this was due back at the library. So what do I think of this technique? well, I don’t think I was any faster knitting the sock this way, but it was much more portable. I can’t take socks with me when they are knit on dpns. It get’s too ugly. But this was nice. No lost stitches to speak of.
Here is my progress on Bay (this is for you, Winnie 
. I had a chance to work on it in bits and pieces last week. I’m on the back and starting the arm shaping.
Slytherin scarf has grown, too. But It pretty much looks the same as the last pic, only longer.
I ran into some snags with the blog merging project. I’m going to think on it for a bit. Will let you know what I come up with.
Have a fantastic week!
5 comments January 17th, 2006