The brim of this hat is never ending. I keep going back to the pattern to see if I have missed a section on the hat because the brim will be larger than the hat before I finish this ball of yarn.
Knit quite a large chunk of Pat's Dr. Who scarf last night while watching Rome on DVD. I found straight garter stitch really soothing after all this k2p2 for Mom's hat.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Learning to Knit: Day Eighty Four
Huzzah! The missing colour for Pat's Dr. Who scarf arrived today. Very fortuitous because I had to stop working on Mom's hat this afternoon until I can get the right sized needles to continue.
Mom did include two sets of needles with the stuff she gave me but they are the wrong size and I don't have the right size in my collection so the hat will have to wait until Mom can find hers. I'm sure she has them I just hope she didn't accidentally bundle them with another project. I do have a set which are almost the right size. I believe the shaping of the hat would allow me to get away with using them for this section but I'll just do something else for a couple days. If Mom can't find them I will use my needles and see how it looks. I could probably keep using the 16" 3.25mm needles but the stitches are crowding off the ends and I am worried I'll start dropping stitches after the next increase.
I'm a little disappointed because it's a super cool hat and I am anxious to see it finished but I am really happy I get to continue with Pat's scarf.
Mom did include two sets of needles with the stuff she gave me but they are the wrong size and I don't have the right size in my collection so the hat will have to wait until Mom can find hers. I'm sure she has them I just hope she didn't accidentally bundle them with another project. I do have a set which are almost the right size. I believe the shaping of the hat would allow me to get away with using them for this section but I'll just do something else for a couple days. If Mom can't find them I will use my needles and see how it looks. I could probably keep using the 16" 3.25mm needles but the stitches are crowding off the ends and I am worried I'll start dropping stitches after the next increase.
I'm a little disappointed because it's a super cool hat and I am anxious to see it finished but I am really happy I get to continue with Pat's scarf.
Monday, March 5, 2012
Learning to Knit: Day Seventy Nine
I swear if I have to cast on this @%$# pattern one more time someone is going to get a knitting needle in the spleen.
I keep missing a section of the instructions. In two seperate ways now I have missed an entire thing I am supposed to do and I keep having to start all over. I don't know how this happens. Other than I loathe repeat from * to * and repeat from ** to **.
I was so happy. I finally got to a colour change and the work finally got big enough to transfer to circular needles.
I keep missing a section of the instructions. In two seperate ways now I have missed an entire thing I am supposed to do and I keep having to start all over. I don't know how this happens. Other than I loathe repeat from * to * and repeat from ** to **.
I was so happy. I finally got to a colour change and the work finally got big enough to transfer to circular needles.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Learning to Knit: Day Seventy Four
Well I am stuck. The next section requires my missing colour that Pat hasn't shipped yet. Back to Liam's sweater.
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