February 19, 2008
This is a quick drive-by blogging of a hat I recently made for Peto!
The pattern is thorpe (PDF!), and I used it as kind of a stashbuster to get rid of a bunch of different gray yarns. I think the hat lends itself nicely to that… I was generally holding two worsted/aran weight yarns together […]
January 23, 2008
It occurred to me that I never introduced the shedir hat that I knit over Christmas as a real finished knit - just a screwed up one! After its surgery it recovered well, and turned into an absolutely fantastic hat! I tried it on my own head before I gave it away, and the size […]
December 30, 2007
So I was taking some UFO photos of a hat I’d been working on the other day when I noticed something. A mistake. In my otherwise perfect, glorious, tiny tiny cables.
First I took this shot of the hat, then I looked down and cursed every curse in the book:
Not seeing the problem? Check out this […]
May 29, 2007
Another FO!
In the course of a day I took this:
handspun by ali
plus a little lamb’s pride…
and made it into THIS:
or if you prefer:
Pattern: Zeebee hat, by scheebot
Yarn: 40% ali’s handspun, plus 60% dark brown lamb’s pride worsted, held double
Size: 20″ circumference for my 22″ head
Needles: US11 bamboo circs
Notes: This pattern is so gratifying, I can’t […]
