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!
Posted: August 21st, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: blue sky alpacas, hats, projects: urban whatever hat, things i knit | Tags: alpaca, beret, craft, diy, handmade, hat, knit, knitting, slouchy hat, stripes | No Comments »
Those of you who read this by checking the main site may have noticed some very bizarre things happening a couple days ago – I apologize. I’ve been tooling around with the back end to get the blog properly set up on swayinglights.com, and it took a little bit of trial and error that meant doing some funny things to the main page for a while.
And hey, speaking of trial and error (see what I did there?), I’ve taken a short break from my sweaters and started working away at something old:
This is the first attempt at a hat I knit most of in the spring, before discovering that the end result was almost comically too large to fit any real person’s head – even as a slouchy beret, which is what I’m trying to make. I ripped back a couple of days ago (I’m on this kick where I’m cleaning out my ‘half-finished projects’ basket), and I’m hoping this one works.
Song of the Entry: Bright Eyes – Road to Joy (Listen)
Posted: January 22nd, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: dream in color, hats, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: dream in color classy, gifts, handknit, hat, knits in progress, knitting, toque, wool, yarn | No Comments »
This latest project definitely falls into the category of “fun to knit, boring to photograph,” and I apologize. This is yet more knitting for my family – my dad is turning 60 at the end of the month, and after sitting down with him and asking him what he wanted me to knit him for the special occasion, he decided on a hat. So we went through Ravelry together, and I picked out a few candidates, and he decided to go with this one.
The pattern is “That Chocolate’s Gone Straight to Your Ribs Hat” (Ravelry), and it is almost but not quite the most boring hat my dad could possibly have requested. (It’s K4p2K2p2 rib, instead of plain old k2p2. That is crazy.) Still, it’s knitting up very quickly, and I’m sure he’ll like it – which is the important thing.
Song of the Entry: Alan Jackson – Drive
