is this glass full of water, or is it full of light?

IMG_7734, originally uploaded by pirateygoodness.

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

they won't know what to think about us, cutie.

2008/10/09, originally uploaded by pirateygoodness.

Progress photo of the jaunty, floppy beret I made myself. The pattern is the Mary Jane Hat/Pithy Hat – this is the Mary Jane version, which makes me feel kind of like a superhero. Or, I guess, a superhero’s girlfriend, which in a way is a more powerful position.

This stitch pattern is gorgeous, but was honestly kind of a pain in the ass to knit – it’s easy enough to memorize, just alternating k2togs or p2togs and yarn overs, but it’s the kind of stitch pattern where I have to actually look at my knitting every so often. I tried taking it in to knit during one of our medical imaging lectures – we have to pay attention but are not supposed to take notes, which means there is roughly a 90% chance I will fall asleep about a half hour in – and it was not the best project. It worked okay, but I couldn’t keep my eyes on the presentation the whole time like I could have if I was just working on plain stockinette.

Song of the Entry: Two Hours Traffic – Heroes of the Sidewalk