finished: urban whatever/mystery hat
Posted: August 26th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: blue sky alpacas, hats, projects: urban whatever hat, self-designed, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: alpaca, beret, crafty, diy, handmade, hats, knit, knitting, slouchy hat, stripes | 1 Comment »
The second iteration of my hat is done, and I am much happier with this version than the first one. It actually fits my head! The stripes turned out the way I wanted! It’s slouchy, but not comically so!
Pattern: my own (I’ve nicknamed it Urban Whatever on Ravelry)
Yarn: almost exactly two skeins of Blue Sky Alpacas 100% Alpaca Sport
Needles: 3.0 mm dpns and a 3.25 mm circular needle
Despite the fact that this hat uses very small needles (those are US size 2 1/2 and 3), it actually went pretty quickly. I knit the hat itself in about three days (you could definitely pull it off in a weekend, if you weren’t doing much). The biggest delay was actually blocking – the hat took two full days to dry because of the summer humidity! I’m really glad that I did block this, though, because that was totally the key to getting the shape that I wanted out of this hat: I knit it a little too big and a little too short, and then blocked it taller.
I’d like to write this up as a pattern, I think, so stay tuned for that!
Great hat!! it’s got the perfect slouch, which I find so hard to achieve.