Blatant Falsehoods
I'm good at math. I know it's common for knitters to shy away from math, but really I don't mind it. On occasion (and under the influence of an adult beverage or two) I have been seized by the need to understand a particular math problem and have gone and found the calculus textbooks and the graph paper and the calculator and spent a happy hour figuring it out. So I tend to take it rather personally when math lies to me. That swatch-turned-mitt is 32 stitches and 8 inches around. I measured carefully. I can do that math. 32 [...]
This is Still Not a Hat
It is a mitt now though, so that's progress. Alas, it's not the sock for Heather's book. It's not that swirly sock over there pining for some attention on the sidebar. It's not even the hat it was supposed to be. What can I say, I am fickle. And while it's not any of the knitting I should be doing, it has been educational. I've learned a few things. First, knitting on the bigger yarn is wicked wicked fast. Second, mistakes show more on bigger yarn. Third, while the big yarn is fun, I'm not abandoning the sock-weight stuff any [...]
This is Not a Hat
It was meant to be a hat. Then I decided a swatch was in order. Then my loathing of swatching in the round reared its ugly head and it turned into a mitt. So now the hat can be a set (you wouldn't want it to be lonely, would you?), and I can pretend it was a clever plan right from the beginning. Don't tell anyone.
Crazed Chickens
Ya know the end of a big project, when all those little things you've been putting off because they 'will only take five minutes' all have to get done at once? Yeah. We're in that stage for the book. There are photo shoots, which means buying poster board and making that one pesky swatch I forgot about and getting a haircut and doing up yarn samples and spending some serious time with a lint roller. There are final read throughs, which have totally justified my highlighter addiction (it's perfectly valid to need a key to remember which color of [...]
Things That Are True
I have moved past the 'serious pondering' stage of the hat and onto the 'yarn on needles' stage. In the process, I've learned several things. Among them: -Heads come in an impressive range of sizes, and people are far less likely to know their head size than their shoe size. -Hats can reasonably use a much wider range of thicknesses of yarn than socks can. You can totally have a super bulky hat, while socks made in super bulky yarn would be... well...slippers. -The thicker the yarn, the more gauge seems to matter. All this led me to take a [...]
Talk To Me About Hats
I have a friend who is having a really crummy couple of months and needs a hat (hi babe, I'm totally soliciting advice on your behalf, trust me it's better this way). Now I've never made a hat, but I want to try. Not only have I never knit a hat, I don't think I've ever even worn a hat any time after I started dressing myself. I have a big head and a lot of hair. This doesn't lend itself to hats. So I need some guidance. I have two skeins (about 300 yards total) of Malabrigo Twist in [...]
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