Posts filed under 'Hats'
This is what I finished for myself yesterday. I wanted a hat to match my favorite scarf.
Pattern: The Asymmetrical cable hat from the book One Skein by Leigh Radford.
Yarn: Steadfast fibers Wonderful Wool in the colorway Columbine (1 hank). 1 ball of a mystery mohair yarn, and one ball of Bollicine in color 550 (light purple).
Needles: size 11 Denise.
Started: December 17th 2006
Finished: December 20th, 2006
For some reason I felt compelled to make a hat with a pompom. I like it. I hated making the pompom, though. And I’m afraid it’s going to disintegrate into little pieces of cutted up yarn.
This is what I’m drinking right now:
St. Peter’s Cream Stout. I’ve never had it before. Actually I had never heard of it before. But I felt like a good beer and saw this cool looking bottle in the “fancy beer” section of the store and decided I needed to try it. It’s pretty effing good. It’s the kind of beer that, when you take the first drink you kind of go, “huh.” Makes you think a bit. Kinda complex. Then as you drink more of it it tastes better and better.
This is what I’m listening to right now:
On this:
Which reminds me. I need to tell you about my killer record player. I have a record player! It’s so cool! I still have an old U2 album that I listented to when I was in High School and it’s in great condition.
December 21st, 2006
So here is the back of Bay! She’s moving along quite nicely, now that I’m spending more time on her. I can’t wait to finish this sweater so I can wear it. The kidsilk haze is soo soft. I’m loving it. There really isn’t very much exciting to say about it. Regular waist shaping, nothing spectacularily new there. But the neck shaping was a bit different. I almost thought the pattern was wrong but I decided to just trust it and go with it, and turned out okay. You can’t really tell in the picture, but the top of the shoulders has a bit of shaping to it.
I’ve been dying to knit the adorable felted bag in the Winter 2005/06 Rowan magazine called “Boo.” But buying the yarn for it would have been way too expensive for me, for something like this anyway. So I bought some Patons merino wool yesterday and decided to cast on and knit on it during the Superbowl. BTW, knitting and football really go hand in hand, IMHO. It was the perfect thing to while nervously watching my team lose. Gave me something to do with my hands. Anyway, this is my first felted project and I’m so excited. I am going to buy some really nice bamboo handles for it. And I want to put some lining inside of it, too.
Oh, and I finished another Helmet hat for my hubby. Picture is here, if you want to take a look.
Have a great week!
February 6th, 2006
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!
January 17th, 2006
Here is the Silk Garden hat I was telling you about in my last post. I made it with one skein of silk garden and I used Stephanie’s pattern.It’s a quick knit. Only took a day or so to knit it up. It’s a nice pattern for those last minute Christmas gifts. I made several last year for Christmas, so many that I got sick of the pattern. I got this skein of Silk Garden by guessing that Simon LeBon was Heather’s favorite member of Duran Duran, a few months back. Thanks for the yarn, that led to the cozy, pretty hat, H!
Here is what I’ve been working the past few days. A lovely, soft baby alpaca scarf. I am not really using a pattern. I just picked a cable stitch that I liked in this knitting book that I have and went for it. I will give more details about it when I am done. So far I am really liking how it’s turning out! It will be nice and cozy warm.
The word of the month is cozy, apparently.
And finally, HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all of my knitblog grrrlz out there! Enjoy your turkey or tofurky or whatever you may eat for dinner.
November 23rd, 2005
Pattern: Shedir from the Knitty fall surprise.
Yarn: Debbie Bliss Cotton Angora in fusia. 1.5 balls.
Needles: Size 3 bamboo, 16′ circular and dpns.
Completed: 1/10/05
Here’s Shedir. She turned out a little bit too long. Actually, quite a bit too long. But it’s still wearable if you turn up the brim. Using this yarn, I had to not do some of the repeats.
So what do I think of cables now? one word. frustrating. Not at all relaxing knitting for me. It was fun to see how the cables came together, though. However, I was really happy to be done with this hat. I am dissappointed that it turned out too big, but I will not reknit it. no way. I will have to give to to my friend and hope that it fits. This is why I hate knitting for other people. There is just way too much pressure to make things perfect, and it ends up being stressful.
Now I can get back to work on my second LaBoheme scarf, this time in the colorway, Alaska. Here is a pic of the yarn, in hank form:
Now these are my colors. 
Happy Monday everyone!
January 10th, 2005
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