Now that the present is present...
Dec. 11th, 2003 06:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gement[I've started composing entries in Notepad and pasting them in as I have time and inclination. This one was delayed while I waited for the present to reach its recipient.]
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mortalcity's hat, 11/30/03:
This feels like knitting clouds. She bought some very expensive fancy yarn for this project, which I'm double-knitting with some very cheap puffy yarn for warmth. The fancy stuff has about a half-inch of "eyelash" (hairy fringe), and I'm learning whole new levels of attention to detail in keeping the fringe sticking out as often as possible.
I'm doing really well at it, but the texture is still disconcerting. The feeling is the same as the feeling in my mouth when I eat a bite of pie that's two-thirds whipped cream, and my mouth goes, "Wow! That was really smooth! Um. Is there any food in there?"
12/1/03: I finished Bridgett's hat! It's soft and fluffy and cloudy and lovable. It's a really basic pattern, but hey, it's my journal, so that I can remember things I want to know! Bwaha!
Reversible Cute Fluffy Hat
If worn knit side out, this looks like a normal, slightly fuzzy knit hat with a fluffier band around the bottom. If worn purl side out, it's an explosion of fluffy fuzz.
Ingredients: Two balls of Vamos (expensive 1/2" eyelash stuff), 1 skein of Lion Jiffy (cheap puffy "mohair look" stuff) in complementing colors, to be knitted in double strand all through the pattern. #10 (6mm) 16" circular needles and double points for the top.
Size notes: My gauge square in stockinette stitch came out to 4"x4" = 12stx20rows. My knitting had a *lot* of stretch to it. For a less stretchy weave, I would probably make the hat circumference 22" instead of 20".
Cast on 64 stitches (for a floppier brim, cast on more). Garter stitch on circular needles for 8 rows/almost 2". On the next knit row, reduce down to 60 stitches/20", spacing the reductions evenly around the hat. Do one last purl row. This makes a slightly looser brim that can either fold up or fit comfily over ears, depending on how long you make the rest of the hat.
Switch to stockinette stitch. Knit 25 rows/5". This is the body of the hat.
To reduce for the top of the hat (if you've used 60 stitches) place 6 markers separated by 10 stitches each. Reduce at each of the markers on every *other* row until you're down to 24 stitches (4 between markers). Then reduce every row. When you're down to six stitches, hook the tail of the thread through all six, draw it tight, and tie it off. This makes a neatly rounded top with no pointy bit.
Thoughts from knitting on
mortalcity's hat, 11/30/03:This feels like knitting clouds. She bought some very expensive fancy yarn for this project, which I'm double-knitting with some very cheap puffy yarn for warmth. The fancy stuff has about a half-inch of "eyelash" (hairy fringe), and I'm learning whole new levels of attention to detail in keeping the fringe sticking out as often as possible.
I'm doing really well at it, but the texture is still disconcerting. The feeling is the same as the feeling in my mouth when I eat a bite of pie that's two-thirds whipped cream, and my mouth goes, "Wow! That was really smooth! Um. Is there any food in there?"
12/1/03: I finished Bridgett's hat! It's soft and fluffy and cloudy and lovable. It's a really basic pattern, but hey, it's my journal, so that I can remember things I want to know! Bwaha!
Reversible Cute Fluffy Hat
If worn knit side out, this looks like a normal, slightly fuzzy knit hat with a fluffier band around the bottom. If worn purl side out, it's an explosion of fluffy fuzz.
Ingredients: Two balls of Vamos (expensive 1/2" eyelash stuff), 1 skein of Lion Jiffy (cheap puffy "mohair look" stuff) in complementing colors, to be knitted in double strand all through the pattern. #10 (6mm) 16" circular needles and double points for the top.
Size notes: My gauge square in stockinette stitch came out to 4"x4" = 12stx20rows. My knitting had a *lot* of stretch to it. For a less stretchy weave, I would probably make the hat circumference 22" instead of 20".
Cast on 64 stitches (for a floppier brim, cast on more). Garter stitch on circular needles for 8 rows/almost 2". On the next knit row, reduce down to 60 stitches/20", spacing the reductions evenly around the hat. Do one last purl row. This makes a slightly looser brim that can either fold up or fit comfily over ears, depending on how long you make the rest of the hat.
Switch to stockinette stitch. Knit 25 rows/5". This is the body of the hat.
To reduce for the top of the hat (if you've used 60 stitches) place 6 markers separated by 10 stitches each. Reduce at each of the markers on every *other* row until you're down to 24 stitches (4 between markers). Then reduce every row. When you're down to six stitches, hook the tail of the thread through all six, draw it tight, and tie it off. This makes a neatly rounded top with no pointy bit.
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Date: 2003-12-11 10:26 am (UTC)