My Frankenstein Hat is done so I grabbed the next skein in my bag of worsted skeins.
I am back on the broken record of a folded brim on a stockinette hat. This is some “free to a good home” yarn from SSK. It’s a Lion Brand Wool Ease Tweed and its a little thicker than my Malabrigo yarns so its a denser hat at the same stitch count and needle size. It’s also not as soft but should wear well.
School is back to business so I have a lot of car time again. So this knitting is mobile!
I played yarn chicken and lost with my Frankenstein Hat. My medusa color ran out just after I started my decreases. So I had to dig through my scraps but I managed to find something. You can see that little bit of purple/pink pop at the very end. I think it adds to the character.
Pattern: A Musselburgh variation with worsted yarn
Needles: US 8s
Yarn: A mix of scraps (malabrigo rios/potion yarns bombshell)
I really like the two lives that hat gives. The measuring and counting paid off and it folds exactly where I want. So there is a pink story on this side and a darker purple story on the other. Bonus, I used up every inch of my scraps and this hat ended up around 220 yards of yarn.
I will definitely be making more of these with my other scraps! Happy Knitting!!
I am in a long stretch of evening meetings so my SSK Tweed Hat has been traveling with me. Turns out that even with thinner yarn that when you actually work on knitting it grows faster! I am making a decent dent with the body.
I need to dig around in my needle stash and see if I can find some DPNs for the crown decreases. US 5s aren’t something I work a ton so I might have to dig deep.
Happy Knitting!!
Turns out I needed those leftovers from Medusa to make this hat complete.
I am trying to work smart on this one. I counted the number of rows from the end of the increases to the start of the burgundy. I will then work that same number of rows on the opposite end before starting the decreases. Hopefully this means I will have a hat that folds where I want it to.
Double thick worsted weight is going to make one warm hat. I just hope that I have enough yarn to finish…..
After many many worsted weight hats, this sport weight hat seems like it takes forever! But my SSK Tweed Hat has reached the main hat body.
I’m using US 5 needles and for this gauge, 112 stitches. I really had zero interest in ribbing that many stitches so I worked in stockinette. It might be the same thing over and over again but I find it soothing. And I still have a bag full of yarn that wants to be more hats!
Side note, I asked my son to bring me my purse. He replied, “which one? Your regular purse or your knitting purse?”. I kinda love that he thinks my knitting bag is another purse!
Happy Knitting!!
I made myself adult and I did finish my Medusa Hat!
Pattern: My Own basic beanie “recipe” with 88 sts
Needles: US 8s
Yarn: Malabrio Rios in Medusa
This hat used 71 grams of the 100 gram skein. This probably means that I could have made the hat body longer based on my prior hats. When I tried this on, it was a fitted beanie with zero slouch. Which is fine and just means the recipients are more limited. And the silver lining is that I will have plenty of leftovers to finish my Frankenstein hat, lol.
Happy Knitting!!
It’s scorching summer here and we are winding down with swimming lessons for Jellybean. He’s in level 4 and crushing it. Meanwhile I am sweating through my business casual in the slim areas of shade. That water was way to tempting.
It’s been good for my Medusa Hat. I am through the body of this hat and put the DPNs in to start the decreases. I love love love these blips of color in this variegation. The fabric just looks so polished and purposeful.
We still have several lessons to do so I envision this hat coming off the needles this week. Happy Knitting!!
It’s officially back to school season and activities are flying fast around here. So much so that I blew through the folded brim and into the stockinette of my Medusa Hat.
The speckles in this yarn are EVERYTHING that I love right now. Those little flecks I think add some much interest to vanilla hat. I need another 3 inches of hat and then I can start decreases.
My conundrum is for my next hat do I start working on scrappy hats with leftovers or do I wind up some of the worsted yarn I got at SSK? I am still finding my mojo drifting to worsted weight hats as they are quick satisfying and do not require any mental bandwidth.
Happy Knitting!!
The SSK retreat has this cool benefit that for a small donation or tip, they will wind yarn for you with some fancy equipment. I had a skein of what I thought was worsted in my knitting bag and I put into be wound.
When I got it back, I realized it was in fact NOT worsted and actually a sport weight from Red Door Fibers that I picked up from KITH KC 2024. I decided to roll with it. But that meant stopping and doing some calculations to adjust stitch count and needle size for this weight of yarn.
After some maths, I landed on 112 stitches on US 5s. Still thinking a stockinette folded brim followed by a vanilla beanie style. This hat is going decidedly slower with the smaller yarn and more stitches. I think this will migrate to being my work backpack knitting and therefore a slow and stead progress kind of project?
I have another skein of sport wound up in cake that needs knit up. So if this works, I will get that skein into my project queue.
Happy Knitting!!
I decided to dust off my tennis shoes and explore downtown Nashville while at SSK. I walked around the campus of Vanderbuilt and explored Music Row.
I ended up on a rooftop bar with my newest cast on and an ice cold beer. An adorable young musician was playing acoustic guitar covers and some of his originals. I sat for an hour or so and enjoyed my beverage and got my new project started.
This is my last skein of Malabrigo from my Yarn Barn trip and I am making yet another Rachelle recipe hat. This is 88 stitches on US 8s. This version will have a folded stockinette brim. This color is called Medusa so I am super originally calling this my Medusa Hat.
Love the memories that will be attached to this one!
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