Far Too Much Fun
It was a photo-ish sort of weekend. Saturday we wandered over to a local stream to take sock pictures. You've seen a bit of that. Then on Sunday, we took pictures of the hat. Now as charming and helpful a model as The Boy is (he spent his Saturday cheerfully standing in a cold stream having his feet photographed after all), I couldn't quite see him sporting a fetching pastel periwinkle hat and mitts. I actually think the hat could work for guys if it was made in a guy-ish color (or at least a color that the guy wearing [...]
Super Quick Call for Testers
Yeah yeah, two posts in one day, but this one is just a quickie. A surprising number of folks have asked if I'm going to write up the pattern for the hat and mitts. I hadn't initially planned to. It is my first hat (not the first hat I designed folks, the first hat I knit), so I was a bit shy about making it public. But you guys have said all sorts of nice things, and I kind of love how it's come out, so I'm starting to think about it. To that end, I'm going to try and [...]
Behold
Look, an actual real live finished hat! There's a bottom part and a middle part and a top part. It fits on human heads. It does not squeeze them nor slide off. It covers that 'top of head' through 'top of ears' region and does not wander over and impede the eyes or attack the neck. It is, more or less, a successful and functional hat. Also note how dramatically the color changed between the partial picture and this one. It's not just different light/camera settings. This yarn (Malabrigo Twist in color Indiecita) just seems to do this. It happened [...]
Completely Smitten
So it turns out I like hats. That sound you just heard was my mother gasping. We lived in the mountains for two years when I was in high school. I went skiing just about every weekend there was enough snow to hide the grass (and one or two memorable weekends there wasn't). I never wore a hat. I would occasionally (and under great duress) grudgingly consent to wear a little ear band to keep my hair out of my face and keep the tips of my ears from turning blue and falling off...but never a hat. Turns out if [...]
Markedly More Hatlike
Well the title more or less says it all. It's is officially looking like a hat now. I looked at some in the store to make sure. I've learned some things. First, hats are full of mystery. That doesn't look like it would go on a human head, but it goes on mine just fine, even before blocking. And my head is very large. Second, each round feels like it's taking for.freaking.ever, but the hat itself grows with stunning speed. That hat in the picture? That's like two evenings of light knitting (the slow and dawdling kind where you're doing [...]
Underway
I cast on the hat yesterday morning. I have mixed feelings. I am totally confident in my gauge. I knit a damn fine mitt gauge swatch and measured very carefully. But I still feel uncertain. Sometimes I think it looks too big, other times I'm convinced it's way too small. I think it's because I don't know what 'proper hat' looks like laying there on the needles. By this point, I am deeply familiar with what 'proper sock' looks like. I can tell within 2 or 3 rounds if it's going to be too big or too small. Not so [...]
Bits and Pieces
Having the furnace on is lovely. It is definitely warmer with the furnace on, but it's not exactly warm. We have an old house (built in 1920), and it has the original windows and absolutely no insulation in the walls. We love it, it's beautiful, but it is more than a bit drafty. We also have an old furnace. It's not quite as old as the house, but is still rather elderly as these things go. The combination of old furnace and drafty house means the gas bill gets rather staggering if we set the heat above about 58. So [...]
Signs of Life
I have done a thorough investigation and can now confidently say that being sick sucks. Refusing to lay down and rest so as to get better seems to prolong being sick. Doing even more stuff than usual because you're busy and things need to get done seems to actually make it worse. Despite my very best efforts, I appear not to be able to will this germ away and have had to actually lay down and rest as opposed to saying I will lay down and rest and completely neglecting to do so. I really don't think this is fair [...]
Speedy
I cast on the second mitt as we pulled out of the parking lot to head off to Pittsburgh. I knit on the drive, I knit at dinner, I knit at drinks. I did not knit at the show (it was dark and crowded) or at the hotel (we didn't get in until 2). I did knit on the drive to Ikea and at lunch. Amazingly, I actually drove back from Pittsburgh, so I didn't knit then either. When we got home, I saw that the new Cast-On was up (yay). I knit through that, and then for a few [...]
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