2 posts tagged “hat”

This is the hat I finished up for Eawyn a couple days ago.  She grabbed a skein of yarn and wanted to buy it while we were wandering around Jo-Ann's tracking down a couple other things I needed.  It was inexpensive acrylic so I humored her.  It's totally my own design and I'm fairly proud of the stem design I came up with at the top where I decreased it to the point where I could throw in a little cabling. 

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I made a hat for Houston as well that I finally finished up yesterday too- he's just harder to photograph.  It's based on the London Beanie pattern I used for Nathan's second hat, only it follows the pattern exactly.  It will actually stretch enough to fit my head, but isn't tall enough to provide the ear coverage I prefer for this type of hat.  I have plenty of yarn left though so I may make a modified version for myself that I can use for cycling.

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I spent a good portion of my spare time in August teaching myself to knit.  There's an unbelievable amount of knitting information and patterns available on the internet so it's really not that hard to pick up once you apply yourself.  Knitting Help has a lot of very helpful free instructional videos for a lot of different techniques  and was the biggest help in mastering the basic Continental (as opposed to English) techniques. 

Here's the Iceland Baby Hat I knit for Houston.  I deviated from the original design in a couple ways.  I used a smaller gauge cotton yarn rather than wool and I made a big H in the front by mixing purl and knit stitches.  I think it ended up being just about the right size for a newborn baby's head, but we'll know for sure in the next week or two.