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