Hat Update Numba Three
I am a hat knitting fool.
No progress yet on the devil hat. I will have to knit those horns sooner or later.
But... check these out!
Koolhaas Hat: I called it the twisted stitch hat below... but it has a pretty twisted name to go with it. This one is being knitted in Suri Merino (which for people who aren't fiber snobs is 50% wool, 50% Alpaca). It's a lovely soft yarn, but it doesn't have the greatest stitch definition.
I love the concept of this hat being based off of Architecture (in this case the Architecture of Rem Koolhaas, which is presumably where the hat gets the funky name). I am what you could call and Architecture history geek, so I must say this pattern has definite appeal.
It also has forced me to learn to cable without a cable needle as it features 52 (count em'... 52!) one by one cables every 4 rows. Yeesh. That's enough to drive a person nuts.
I hated this hat when I started it. Wonky knits, hundreds of teeny tine cables. About halfway through I started to realy enjoy it. I don't know whether that's because I figured out the best way to make these teeny cables or because I bought a new hat needle.
Mmm, my very first Addi Turbo. I usually hate to gush about things, especially things you buy, but hell... these things make knitting like putting a hot knife through butter. Buttah! I am freakin' sold.
This hat would be finished tonight, but I am out of yarn and need to pick up another skein. >.<
Brainmonster!
I wanted hair on my Brainmonster. Partially because I'm a freak, and partially because I found by accident that Jo Ann Fabric's had thier Fun Fur rip off "Cello" on clearance... and the color scheme just happened to match the Nature Wool I wanted to use, and so I figured it was a match made in heaven... or Brainmoster hell... whichever you prefer.
I admit, I was stubborn. I wasn't going to change the pattern to knit in the cello, so I stuck with size 7 needles even though I had 2 strands of yarn. It was like a battle of brawl vs. knitter with no brains, but I perservered. We shll soon see if the top is tres wonky or fits ok. Either way I am past the fun fur (ahem...Cello) and into knitting pleasure once again.
No progress yet on the devil hat. I will have to knit those horns sooner or later.
But... check these out!
Koolhaas Hat: I called it the twisted stitch hat below... but it has a pretty twisted name to go with it. This one is being knitted in Suri Merino (which for people who aren't fiber snobs is 50% wool, 50% Alpaca). It's a lovely soft yarn, but it doesn't have the greatest stitch definition.
I love the concept of this hat being based off of Architecture (in this case the Architecture of Rem Koolhaas, which is presumably where the hat gets the funky name). I am what you could call and Architecture history geek, so I must say this pattern has definite appeal.
It also has forced me to learn to cable without a cable needle as it features 52 (count em'... 52!) one by one cables every 4 rows. Yeesh. That's enough to drive a person nuts.
I hated this hat when I started it. Wonky knits, hundreds of teeny tine cables. About halfway through I started to realy enjoy it. I don't know whether that's because I figured out the best way to make these teeny cables or because I bought a new hat needle.
Mmm, my very first Addi Turbo. I usually hate to gush about things, especially things you buy, but hell... these things make knitting like putting a hot knife through butter. Buttah! I am freakin' sold.
This hat would be finished tonight, but I am out of yarn and need to pick up another skein. >.<
Brainmonster!
I wanted hair on my Brainmonster. Partially because I'm a freak, and partially because I found by accident that Jo Ann Fabric's had thier Fun Fur rip off "Cello" on clearance... and the color scheme just happened to match the Nature Wool I wanted to use, and so I figured it was a match made in heaven... or Brainmoster hell... whichever you prefer.
I admit, I was stubborn. I wasn't going to change the pattern to knit in the cello, so I stuck with size 7 needles even though I had 2 strands of yarn. It was like a battle of brawl vs. knitter with no brains, but I perservered. We shll soon see if the top is tres wonky or fits ok. Either way I am past the fun fur (ahem...Cello) and into knitting pleasure once again.
posted by JamieL | 8:44 PM
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