Hat of Infinite Happiness
Right, so you know how pretty much all knitting is lovely and fun and a good thing? But then there's some knitting that is just Your Personal Perfect Knitting? Yeah, so this is mine. The top is just the way I like the tops of my hats to be (flat, which leads to a tiny bit of pouf but not unseemly amounts of slouch). It fits my (giant melon of a) head just right, with just the right amount of brim but not too much (a tricky dance, and one no store bought hat ever manages). And the colors. Oh [...]
A hat in slow motion
If you wandered over from pinterest and are looking for the pattern, it's called Pelagic and it's out on ravelry! First things first, you've got to put your time in on the band. There's no way around it. But then you get to play. I'm pretty sure this is exactly the right thing to do with that yarn you bought in an effort to be more colorful, but then you realized you are secretly a little scared of too much color, and so you tucked it away in the back corner of your stash where it couldn't give your other [...]
Lickity split
Well that took no time at all. Normally I'd do several posts of progress shots just to show you how something was coming along (and assuage any concerns I was spending all my days napping), but this was knit in pretty much two sessions, so it hardly seems fair. I'm going to sneak some progress shots in just because I actually did grab them, but really just imagine the whole hat zooming together so fast it's a blur. Oh and the inside of this one is unaccountably amusing. A little too busy for me to want it to be the [...]
Magic
So the cowl grew and grew and grew. And then at some point, it was done. Bound off, flippy as all get out (as you'd expect from stockinette), and ready for a soak. And here's where the magic happened. I soaked it, squeezed it out, and flopped it on my desk. No pins. No wires. No tension at all. Just soak and plop (it will get a more formal blocking later, I was just testing a theory). And look at that. It laid down flat. Not a bit less flippy, not more or less ok, but flat. Now part [...]
More of a good thing
Back in February I went on a little stroll down memory lane about the first of the Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet books. It was sort of awesome to go back and spend some time with it, and so I thought I'd make some time to talk about the other two books in that series too. I'll start with Volume II today, and we'll chat about Volume III later in the year. Just like last time, I've gone ahead and put both the paper book and the electronic book on sale for 25% off and made the individual patterns available on ravelry [...]
Theory
We have friends who make better than average children, and they've recently gone and made a new one. This gives me the perfect opportunity to test my theory that most anything you put on a baby's head will be adorable. Let's see if it extends to orange and green hats. I suspect it will...
Easy enough
So I love that you guys are enthusiastic about the idea of listing the sizing information for the sock patterns in the next book in multiple gauges. That actually makes my life secretly easier, as I may possibly have requested a couple of thicker yarns already. And if you guys are cool with it, then I don't have to have the internal debate about 'do folks know they could totally do this with skinny yarn instead? because they totally could do that.' Instead I can just say 'skinny yarn? You'll get these sizes. Thick yarn? You'll get these sizes.' and [...]
Yes please
Well that's just unreasonably lovely. And yes, yes it's simple. It's just leaves, and leaves are easy to knit. But there's something rather delightful about these. I can't quite decide if I want to hurry up and be done (so I can block it and pet it and generally admire it) or if I want to take my time (so I can have the pleasure of knitting it for a while longer).
I love this part
So as I mentioned, Curls 2 is off at the printer (yay) and will be out this summer (double yay). And that means it's totally time for me to diving in to the next book. One of the first steps is always getting yarn. I flashed some of the other pretty yarns for the new one a few days ago, but the mail fairy has brought me more in the meantime! That's Mrs. Crosby Hat Box in Roasted Chestnut. And that's Lorna's Laces Solemate in Manzanita. Both awfully yummy, and a good illustration of something I'm considering for this book. [...]
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