Yes, I’ve actually been knitting lately! I’ve made a couple of hats.. one for William, and one for Brian. Will promptly lost his after having it for less than a month. I’ve told him if he wants me to knit him another, he’s going to have to buy the yarn himself, and it’s NOT allowed to be acrylic. Knitting that hat with acrylic really hurt my hands a lot. I think I can possibly convince him to buy a skein of some nice baby alpaca or some ultra soft cotton or something. Baby alpaca would be awesome, but I think I would covet it for myself and not let him have it once I was finished.
Speaking of coveting… I have finally started a project with some of the yummy Malabrigo that I have been saving for a few years. I really liked the hat pattern (Woolly Wormhead’s Ribbed Beanie), so I made one for myself out of the Dark Earth Malabrigo worsted from my stash. I finished it last night.
The first picture is almost exactly the color of the yarn. The second picture came out much lighter because of the flash. It is a wonderfully warm hat, and it fits beautifully.
I made this with two strands of worsted held together so I could approximate a bulky yarn. I think it worked out well. I changed the patterne from a 6×2 rib to a 5×3 rib, and I changed the crown shaping so it would be “rounder” instead of decreasing so quickly. Details on my project page, if you have a Ravelry account. I basically added a “plain” round, knit in pattern, in between decreases.
Now that I’m done with that, I have two half-balls of yarn left over to play with. I started a new project this morning with the leftovers; the Single Cable Scarf from One Skein by Leigh Radford. I took a picture this morning when it was really short:
I’ve done about 8 more inches on it since then, though. I shall have to take another picture later.
On the down side of life, Will has a cold with a nasty cough… and of course I’m in the process of getting it. I suppose I can use it as a good excuse to stay in bed and knit. Thanks, public schools, for being such wonderful source of entertainment for my immune system.
