I am a hat knitting machine!

Hats are half the reason I got into knitting in the first place, and so far I love making them. I never liked the starlike pattern you get when decreasing a hat so I brainstormed on how to fix this and came up with my own pattern...

I am using:

Yarn: 1 skein Lambs Pride Bulky Oregano (m113)
Yarn: 1 skein Lambs Pride Bulky Gray Heather (m03) for a stripe
Needles: Size 7 circular needles, 16" long
Needles: Size 7 double-pointed needles

Gauge: 4 stitches per inch.

CO 80 stitches loosely
Knit k2, p2 for 6½ add stripe wherever you like
Add stripe (if desired) wherever you like, I added mine after about 4 inches

Round 1: *K2tog, P2, K2, P2* all around
Round 2: *K1, P2, K2, P2* all around
Round 3: *K1, P2, K2, P2* all around
Round 4: *K1, P2tog, K2, P2tog* all round
Round 5: *K1, P1, K2, P2* all round
Round 6: *K1, P1, K2tog, P1* all round
Round 7: *K1, P1, K1, P1* all round
Round 8: *K* all round
Round 9: *K2tog* all round
Round 10: Cut off yarn leaving 6 inch tail, and then thread through all remaining stitches and pull closed. I prefer to leave a little hole at the top so the stitches do no munch up and look funny.

Also the copy cat scarf

Michelle got the same yarn as me when I was making my sisters scarf, and made this really nice looking scarf! I thought I would try it with my left over yarn and it's okay. Her's for whatever lame reason looked better.



I think i mostly like photographing the yarn..

Matching Fibers

Oh my pretty yarn came that i had ordered when originally ordered the blues for my mits!



This is a good sense of the color. I think they are wonderfully amazing together.

Roll Brim hat of yumminess...

I finished the roll brimmed hat that I started on Friday, and I think it came out nice, I just hope it is not to large for the person I am gifting it too. Most of thw work was done on the bus to San Francisco, or the car ride to Santa Cruz, and all around the bay area. The knit stitch is so easy to do, and takes very little concentration on my part. I did have a few issues, but those were when I tried to purl for some reason, and they were fairly easy to fix....

New yumminess, and a roll brim hat.

So I got some new very yummy yarn, and I know in the past I have said I do not like variegated yarn very much, but I found some that I am totally in love with. This yarn is manufactured by a company called Manos Del Uruguay, and their yarn is unbelievable! Whenever i go to village knitters i spend half the time staring at this stuff, and I have finally found a project to use it on, a roll brimmed hat. I am not going to say who the hat is for, but she is the only person who I think would wear one. I am starting it today and maybe I will post progress pics on Monday, or someday. Anyways...

One Hat to rule them all, One Hat to find them, One Hat to bring them all and in the comfiness bind them

So after working on my ribbed scarf, I decided that I had my purl stitch down, and I wanted to try my hand at making a hat again, and I have succeeded! I started this hat on 03-30-08, and finished it on 04-05-08, 1 week later. I think I made good progress considering I knitted the vast majority of it at work.

I started by casting on 74 stitches of Lambs Pride Bulky, and doing a knit purl ribbed pattern, Which I found here http://kisknit.wordpress.com/2006/08/31/fo-second-chemo-cap-plus-the-pattern/. I never being one to follow a pattern decided to knit a fold seam, or whatever the hell it is called a couple inches into the project, and I think it came out looking nice.

If I were to make this mat again, which I am sure I will I would not put in the fold seam, and I would prolly cast on a couple extra stitches, maybe 76-78 just to make it a little large.

enjoy the pics.

Hecka Hella Hella Ipod cozy.

I made a super cool ipod cozy out of my beautiful yarn .. i think life should be made of this yarn. Hopefully i never actually find any to buy cause i'd max out my credit card.
This is the opening of the Icozi

I want to try and make one with openings for the head phone port, screen, and scroll button area.. but complicated.

I took pictures of during the make a little bit mostly because the yarn is really photogenic.


I know it's sort of ugly but its ugly in a beautiful way.