is this glass full of water, or is it full of light?
Posted: January 28th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: baby things, dale baby ull, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: babies, baby, baby clothes, baby hat, cables, dale baby ull, gift knitting, green, handknit, knits, knitting, tiny hats | 1 Comment »
I knit this teeny cabled hat (the coffee mug is for scale, and that is a big mug) in exactly six lectures, for my cousin who is expecting her first child. . .soonish. It’s the first piece of baby clothing I’ve ever knit, and I still can’t get over how quickly it knit up. Six lectures seems like a long time, but it was probably only about three or four hours of knitting time, which seems absolutely ridiculous for an entire hat. (But then again, when you’re knitting for teeny tiny people, I guess you get to make smaller stuff. Who knew?)
I’m not going to lie, the colour is pretty much just as close to electric green as it looks in the photos, but I’m okay with that, and I feel like the parents are too – I was trying to keep it gender neutral without descending into ridiculous pastels, and this was the best I could do with what I had.
The yarn is Dale Baby Ull, in eye-searing green on 3.25 mm needles, and the pattern is Cabled Baby Hats (the ten-cable version, knit with 4 purl stitches between each cable to allow for my smaller gauge) from Hey Julie, via Ravelry.
Song of the Entry: Wild Light – Call Home
