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Now that summer’s here: new hat

admin — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:55:14 +0000

A few months back I swapped one of my cashmere hats for a few hours of practice time in a hard-to-get-in facility. It was a great deal for me, because I was bored of that hat anyway and needed an excuse to knit myself a new hat.

I wanted something that would be ridiculously warm in the dead of winter.

I had fun with green and purple-blue cashmere; I made a zig-zag rib; I made stripes; I finished the hat and then cast on a new bottom band to make it nice and snug around the ears; finally, I felted it within an inch of its life by washing it and putting it in the dryer for half an hour. It’s soft and dense and fits nice and snugly.

Green and purple knitted watchcap

For my knitting friends…

admin — Thu, 19 May 2011 00:07:10 +0000

The New York Times discovers knitted graffitti (“yarn bombing”) in this article.

The hat project, part 2…

admin — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:21:32 +0000

I made hats before I went to New York to see my sister (and my daughter) (and my sister’s son and daughter) (and my sister’s two grandchildren). I took photos of some of the hats. Herewith, some more photos:

Cooper Lake, New York

Nephew-in-law and his hat

Niece and her daughter: hats and scarves (blue scarf by my niece and my sister) (I just wove in the ends)

The Hat Project

admin — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:49:50 +0000

When I’m not doing agility, I like to sit on the couch with my husband on one side and the poodles on the other side (big couch) and knit while I watch TV. Since it’s dark, I’m limited to things I can knit in the dark. I mostly make blankets and hats. Right now, I’m planning a visit to my sister in the Catskills in New York (who has two children and two grandchildren and a boyfriend) so I’ve been knitting hats to take with me as presents.

Here’s the collection as it currently stands. I’m trying to finish a few more in the next week or so.

The Hat Project

Knitting…

admin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:51:34 +0000

I sent some knitting to my niece a while back and completely forgot to take photos before I sent it. She was kind enough to send photos along.

This yellow scarf is from a lovely soft yarn. It’s 2×2 rib with a garter stitch end just to make it more interesting…

Yellow Scarf

And these hats were knit as a not-quite-pair for my great niece Julie and her new sister Ivy. The ruffles around Ivy’s hat were done by casting on 3x the number of stitches I needed and doing a few rounds (just ordinary all-knit-stitch hat knitting) and then knitting three together all the way around to reduce the number of stitches. Julie’s hat is lots of 2×2 rib for extra warmth, then all purl for the blue stripe for texture, then regular all-knit for the white. I also made a matching blue hat for my sister (their grandmother) so that everyone kind of coordinated. The picture of that one is here: blue-and-white hat. I know the blues don’t look the same in the photos but oh well.

Sisters in Hats

Another hat

admin — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:23:17 +0000

Warm hat, I hope

My sister feels the cold. And she likes the hats I make her. So this one is a Christmas present for her (oh well, there goes the surprise). It’s similar in design to the pink/purple hat I made myself, but looser (so I could felt it a bit), and then I added the neck edge so that there would be THREE layers over her ears, and strings so it would be nice and snug. Hope she likes it.

Some knitting

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:11:16 +0000

With the kitchen under construction, I’ve been spending my evenings knitting in front of the TV. I’ve forgotten entirely to take pictures of several hats, but I do have photos of two recent projects.

For this hat, I took an existing hat that was just a smidge too short (it was made from exactly one skein of obscenely expensive cashmere) and picked up stitches all the way around, then did a few rounds of garter stitch, then reduced by one stitch in eight (I knit two together every eight stitches), then did a two-by-two rib for the same number of rounds as the garter stitch. I bound off very loosely and left a very long tail. Then I flipped in the ribbing and hemmed it to the original edge of the hat. Much warmer, nice and snug, and just the right length.

This scarf is yet another iteration of the scarf shown in this post: I’ve Been Doing Some Knitting. What can I say? Any pattern I can knit in the dark…

Knitting

admin — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:21:01 +0000

Stacia and I spent some time together last Saturday, and I took advantage of a helpless sale clerk to get her to take our picture in our matching hats. (I will also point out that I encouraged her to buy this wonderful dress for $10 at Goodwill while we were there (and then gave her the money it cost to go to the cleaners with it).)

I made my hat first–it’s a 2×2 rib in ridiculous expensive cashmere from Lobster Pot Yarns–and then Stacia tried to steal it, and asked for one of her own for Christmas. So I made hers from the same yarn, but improved the design a bit. 1×1 rib is certainly prettier but it takes FOREVER.

Diana and Stacia in matching hats

Finished… Only one day late…

admin — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:37:06 +0000

If you don’t count the fact that I promised it for Christmas LAST YEAR!

Stacia

Pre-Christmas Knitting

admin — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:46:50 +0000

I am trying to finish a sweater for my daughter (see previous post on favorite mammals). It would go much faster if I didn’t keep messing up the cable pattern. I’ve ripped back to correct the cable (and I never rip back unless I’m sure I have to) at least five times. I’ve stopped trying to knit the sweater and talk to people at the same time because it’s too easy to mess up.

The cable pattern is:

2 purl, cable 2 back, 1 purl, cable 2 forward, 2 purl

which creates this pattern, when done every four rows…