I finished my Sockhead Hat! It could probably be a little slouchier, but I like it just fine. I made the 152-stitch size because I was using thinner yarn and smaller needles than the pattern specified, and it fits perfectly. The difference between the two balls of yarn, which were supposedly the same dye lot, is less stark in the finished objects than it...
That secret gift I mentioned in my last post is a neckwarmer/cowl for Grandma! I knit it with a yak/silk blend that I spun a couple of years ago, but didn’t know what to do with it… until now. The pattern is Polyphylla, which is available for free on Ravelry. I really enjoyed knitting this pattern, not to mention knitting with my own handspun...
This project is a gift, so I can’t share pictures of the whole thing yet. But holy wow did I ever cut it close on the yarn! The project called for a long-tail cast on over two needles; I overestimated the amount of yarn I’d need and had nearly a yard of tail remaining. Laziness said “it’s 168 stitches, you don’t really want to...
Originally, I’d thought that this was going to be a hat, and the not-really-matching ball of yarn (in the same dye lot! grr!) would become a machine-knit cowl. But I changed my mind, and this one became the cowl… because, really, the mindless knitting was exactly what I needed, and I won’t mind doing it all over again for the not-really-matching hat. While it’s...
With my scrappy leftovers hat finished, the only other project I have on the needles is a sock which is just slightly too complicated for knit night and football games. So, I thought to myself, what should I knit? Then my sworn-sister made a Sockhead Slouch Hat… and there it was. My next hat. A stockinette slouchy hat in sock yarn will take approximately...
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