i will crochet you a hat

IMG_7539, originally uploaded by pirateygoodness.

This is the project I decided to knit up after I cast off for my sweater, that I first blogged here. It’s a hat. A purple, tweedy hat with garter stitch (and really, there are few things in life I find more satisfying than working with good quality tweedy yarn. I may start sucking it up and paying the stupid-expensive prices to use it for bigger projects.) and earflaps and stupid goofy braids, because it is cold out and I wanted to wear something that felt warm, you know?

It’s a little large on me – not length-wise, but circumference-wise. I definitely could have worked it up with fewer stitches and been okay. That said, I was sort of winging it anyway – the pattern I used is Thorpe (on Ravelry here), which is very well-written but for chunky yarn on large needles. I worked this hat up on Takhi Yarns Donegal Tweed (in purple, obviously) on 3.75mm needles, so I had to make some modifications. I also opted to not do the half-crochet along the edges, partly because I’m not actually that good at crocheting, partly because I didn’t have an appropriately-sized crochet hook around the house and I wanted to have a finished hat more than I wanted pretty edging.

I forgot how satisfying it is to knit toques. I really should do it more often.

Song of the Entry: Sufjan Stevens – Sister

so really, i'd better scurry

IMG_7516, originally uploaded by pirateygoodness.

It’s cold out, and I’m (mostly) finished my sweater. (More on that later.) I don’t really feel like baking at the moment, so you guys are stuck with this extreme closeup of my post-sweater rebound project. Spoiler alert: it’s purple.

Song of the Entry: Barenaked Ladies – Baby It’s Cold Outside

only get closer to a point

2008/10/10, originally uploaded by pirateygoodness.

Extreeeeme closeup of the stitch pattern for my hat, taken while it was still in progress. I’ve finished the knitting, and am wearing it all over the place now that it’s nice and cool and fall is in the air. One of these days, I may actually enlist someone to take some pictures of it while it’s on my head.

(Well, okay. There is one picture that you can find on Ravelry, here, but I don’t like that picture of me.)

Song of the Entry: Joshua Radin – Closer