Monthly archives: December 2006

I finished another earflap hat, this time for russell.

I also started a wide cable scarf with some yarn from the stash. The yarn is kool wool, and the recommended needle size is 9 or 10. I went up to an 11 to make a looser fabric, and to prevent tightness in the huge cable.

I’ve also been working on Hardangervidda a bit. I finished another ball on the body, and started a sleeve. Theres still alot of work on this one, but I figured I would switch off working on the body and the sleeves to keep it interesting.

I also casted on a sleeve for the Freida sweater from Debbie Bliss’ Alpaca Silk book. I love this sweater. The first version was started years ago when I first started knitting. The front was knit out of a chunky weight yarn because I didn’t care about gauge. When I got to the sleeves, I cared about gauge. Before all the increasing was done this sleeve could have fit a gorilla. So it sat in a bag for 2 years, and now I begin version 2 with a heavy worsted yarn (and a swatch).

They’re fast to finish, use up those single skeins from the stash, and easy to work on anywhere. I was pretty sick a few weeks back, staying home from both work and school for a few days. In that time I made 3 hats!

The first was a hat for Russell. He loves teal and hexagons so I designed this:

The yarn is Knitpicks Wool of the Andes, 1 and a half skeins of Stream. The hexagon stitch pattern didn’t really look like hexagons, but it has a nice texture none the less. He loves it and wears it nearly every day, and has now replaced the one I made him last winter (which I somehow forgot to blog about).

This hat was made in about a week last November out of 2 different skeins of kureyon he picked out.

The next hat I made was one for myself. The pattern is Knitty’s Coronet, made out of less than one skein of purple cascade 220 tweed.

The pattern called for picking up stitches from the cabled band from the back. I thought to myself that it was a stupid way to do it, and so I picked up from the front. Upon finishing the hat I realised why they tell you to do it this way, so that you can fold the cabled band up. So much for following (or even reading) the directions. I did it my way and it worked, but I kinda would have liked a fold up band.

The last hat is for my little brothers birthday. I love the way it turned out, and a hat with chunky yarn only took 1 day to finish.

I asked Russell to model all these hats for me and whenever I try to take a picture of his face he makes what I like to call “the crazy eye”.