So, last summer I made hat. I was going for ‘juanty and beret like—maybe that will look good on me!’ This is what it looks like from the top:
Not to bad, right? Perhaps a tad bigger than it needed to be, but that’s live withable, right? Well, look what the bottom does.
No, look. What was supposed to look like a nice smocked band instead does this:
Yeah, I can’t live with that. Frog it is!
Since I love this yarn deeply, and it was the only skein left at the yarn store, I decided to try again with a hat. I found a pattern that I like, and I’m knitting from the unraveling ruins of my not so great hat. Hopefully I’ll end up with something wearable! I suppose I have only myself to blame for ‘hat fail,’ but you would think that if I can knit socks that fit, I could manage to cloth my head…
The only other thing of note that I’ve been working on this week is this scarf that is a gift for someone out here who’s birthday is coming up. I had a bad case of cast-on-itis around half-term; it took some doing, but I managed to reign myself in to two items. I’ve finally found what the Noro yarn was born to be—I’ve had it sitting in the stash for several years now, and after an aborted sock attempt I wasn’t sure what to do with it. Noro yarn is ‘slubby’ (think and thin) and features a lovely color progression, so it had to be something where the yarn could do the talking. Enter this scarf:
The picture doesn’t do it justice by half, but I’m enjoying the pleasure of the very simple pattern and the color shift ever two inches or so. Since this is knit down from a provisional cast on, I divided the yarn into two balls before I started. I’ll pick up the live stitches from the middle of the scarf and knit down the other side when I finish with the first half of the yarn. I think I managed to divide it in a way that will make sense with the colors…we shall see once I start the second half. It’s the little things in life!
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