We are screaming towards year end at work and that means year end financials and audit season. I have taken the grace to work from home one day a week to focus on tasks that take concentration.
I have been keeping my Chocolate Musselburgh on my WFH desk to add a few stitches while my queries are running or I’m reading narratives. It’s a great way to add lots of knitting and keep the Christmas sweets out of my hands!
Happy Knitting!!
Okay, the guilt about this Cozy hat is getting to me. I am making this my primary knitting every day after I get my advent stripes done on my socks. And the monogamy has paid off as the main body of the hat is largely complete. I am weighing my yarn to know when I can start my decreases and not run out of yarn.
Duke is still not knitting but he is helping with emotional support and the sharing of body heat. It’s Thursday morning and my goal is to have this finished by tomorrow so I can show off FO pictures and mark this off my list.
Happy Knitting!!
My Cozy Hat has been lingering a wee bit with the busy season and all my advent knitting. But I have the 2×2 ribbing complete and turned up. Now it’s just cruising through the main body of the hat.
This would go a lot faster if Duke could learn to knit and not take so many naps! Happy Knitting!!
As predicted by my spidey senses, I am losing at yarn chicken. I will not have enough handspun to cast off this hat. But the good news about Musselburgh is that since it tucks inside itself….I can hack the system.
I did a quick search of my scraps and found some DK weight teal mystery yarn that coordinates color with the handspun. I am a little worried about mixing the fiber types but it’s time to live on the edge.
I am so excited to finish this hat!! It’s cold here and my head needs to be cozy. Happy Knitting!
This feels better! My hat is back to normal human sized and zooming right along. The fireplace feels toasty on my feet and the puppy doesn’t understand why I get to bring sticks in the house and he cannot.
Right now this project is cruising along until I get to the right length so the hat will be the right size when doubled inside itself. I MIGHT be playing yarn chicken but again that is a problem for future Rachelle.
It’s also December 1st so I get to start both sock advents today!!! Happy Knitting
Last night at golf lessons (indoor, thank goodness) I finally set about looking at my Handspun hat gauge. Doesn’t it look great!
My gauge in this handspun is WILDLY too big. I mean this hat is almost two hand spans! So I pulled the needles out and took a big chug of water for courage.
By the end of the lesson I had the hat ripped back and the needles back into the decreases. This time around I took out 16 stitches and moved this hat down to an 80 stitch count.
So, time to persevere and redo this hat. The silver lining is that my handspun is holding up really well to the knitting and ripping back!
Happy Knitting!!
I have managed a nice fair bit of my handspun hat. The crown decreases are complete and I have many inches hat. I think I might tempt fate and try to make this into a Mussleburgh hat. What better way to maximize this handspun?
I need to take some weight and gauge measurements to see if I can make this pattern idea work. But I’m honestly pretty excited about this idea. Happy Knitting!!
I know, I already have a hat on the needles. But this handspun has been caked up and waiting on my desk for months. I decided to start a hat but from the crown worked down so I can maximize the use of the yarn.
I am using 8US dpns and I cast on 8 stitches and started increases at the end of each needles. This will create four lines of increase. Based on the size large hat I just finished for my coworker, I am going to work up to 96 stitches.
Once this gets up to full stitch count I will switch to a 16 inch circular in the same needle size. I don’t know how I will finish the brim. That is a problem for future Rachelle!
Happy Knitting!!
Knitting is a great tool for waiting in those long lines waiting for Thanksgiving grocery pickups. This is where my Emotional Support sock left off after my mandatory online training last week.
I really want to get this sock finished up quickly so that I can get the toes started for my Advent Socks. I have two Christmas advent sock sets coming this year. One from KirbyWirby that is Friends themed and the 2023 version from the Cozy knitter.
I want to get the toes done for all four socks so I can start with the sock knitting on December 1st. The other challenge is to find enough sock needles to get these all on at once!
Happy Knitting!!
What a difference 8 hours of sitting and listening can make! My second coworker hat is ready for decreases!
I am super ready to NOT be sitting in ballroom straight backed chairs and drinking really bad coffee. The muggles around me were really impressed with my multi-tasking skills and I think I just might make my deadline!
I do think I will STILL have yarn leftover even with a larger brim and more stitches. Perhaps I could use these leftovers and the chocolate leftovers to make a wee toddler hat for my coworker’s kiddo? Shall I dare?
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