Thanks to annual budget season and a LONG public meeting, I was able to work through the brim of my Copperhead Hat in one sitting.
I was never so glad to be past the ribbing. I do so enjoy the speed of stockinette with worsted weight yarn. For this one I am going to resist my urge to finish the hat and try to make the body as long as possible.
Bonus points, it matched my work outfit today. The muggles at work were duly impressed even though I 1,000% did not do it on purpose.
Happy Knitting!!
The germs hit our house post 4th and I was up all of Friday night and into Saturday morning with a 6 yo and watching Bluey. So I decided to power through my Royal Hat.
This was all stockinette for hours. So I managed to finish the brim and the main body of the hat while not sleeping. I was too bleary however to attempt the decreases. So I waited until some sleep on Saturday night to work those with coffee this morning. This hat is going into a different gift pile. There is a contest at my new job and I offered up this to the prize basket as it matches our organization main color theme. I hope it fits its new owner!
Pattern: My own vanilla beanie with a rolled brim (Rav link)
Yarn: Malabrigo Rios in Matisse Blue
Needles: US 8s
I was bang on size with all my other hats based on yarn usage. I used 74 grams or 3/4 of the skein so thats roughly 155 yards of yarn. It has nice stretch and the blue is just the perfect blue. And now I need to start my next one! I still have 3-ish hats to go for my volleyball team plan.
Happy Knitting!!
With finishing the Burgundy Hat, I am on to the next color in a DEEP royal blue hat.
These are still on the theme of making hats for my Volleyball friends for our holiday meet up. And in the broken record theme, this is a 88 stitch basic beanie on US 8s. Another skein of Malabrigo Rios I picked up at my LYS earlier this year.
This version will have the stockinette folded brim and then vanilla body. I’ve just got the hat cast on and working. I am trying to also work through my backlog of podcasts so my earbuds are following me around. Such is mom life!
Happy Knitting!!
This is the finished Better in Burgundy Hat.
Pattern: My own 88 stitch beanie “recipe”
Needles: US 8s
Yarn: Malabrigo Rios in Purpuras
This version of my recipe ended up with a decently long 2×2 ribbed folded brim and then a nice slouchy stockinette hat. I used a little more yarn on this due to the slouch in 82 grams or 172 yards.
This hat is going into my volleyball team gift pile! Next up is finishing my Other Ponytail Hat and then go back for another beanie. I need to get to 7 hats to cover our full team. Happy Knitting!!
The Better in Burgundy hat has reached the decrease stage.
When I am working my hat “recipe” I tend to use a star shaped decrease. For instance with 88 stitches I work in 10 stitch sections and the last one leaves me with 8 when I reach BOR. I then alternate stockinette rounds with decrease rounds until I get down to a handful stitches on the needles and then I decrease every row rapidly to finish.
It’s not perfect but it works for me and muggles don’t notice it’s not 100% symmetrical. It also helps that it require very little brain cells.
What is your favorite hat decrease?
Happy Friday and happy finished hat!! My Another Teal Beanie if off the needles.
Pattern: My own 88 stitch beanie “recipe:
Yarn: Malabrigo Rios in Cian
Needles: US 8s
For this version I worked a 2×2 brim that I knit and then folded over to join with the main body of the hat. Then just stockinette for days ending in star type decreases to close it up. I used approximately 162 yards or 77 grams.
I have all the hat mojo right now. I think I have decided to channel it into gift knits for my volleyball team later this year. Work now, gift later. I already have the next two hats in mind with the yarn wound!
Happy Knitting!!
I have a hat FO to share later this week and in the meantime I am starting my next hat so my needles don’t get lonely.
This is more of the Malabrigo I grabbed at the Yarn Barn a couple months ago. This color is a deep burgundy that they name Purpuras. I am working on a my standard adult beanie so that means my normal recipe of 88 stitches.
I did decided to start with 2×2 rib and again fold it over. But I have to throw when I rib when I can flick when do stockinette. I’m thinking my next hat or two will have stockinette brims as I am so much faster when flicking. It’s just so satisfying how fast worsted weight goes!
Happy Knitting!!
Today brings you the afternoon (and sweaty) progress of my Another Teal Beanie.
I managed to get the 2×2 ribbing folded over and attached to the body hat. SOOO happy to be cruising in the stockinette section. I can flick this and it just goes so fast.
Many kids stopped to look at my knitting and ask if they could do it. But it was so humid and the yarn very “sticky” that I didn’t. Also, I would have ended up with 35 kids lined up. One older kid asked “what station” is this and I said “the mom taking a break section” and he snapped back “can I try it”. I said no and giggled profusely.
Just need to keep motoring along and I might have another finished hat this week! Happy Knitting!!
My new job means a new commute. The silver lining? The new area I work in has a LYS! And on a break this week I fell down in the store and my card bought new yarn.
Am I going to Knitting in the Heartland conference in less than two weeks? Yes. But I was feeling good this day and the yarn fumes got me. I picked up three skeins of Malabrigo Rios in Matisse Blue, Cian, and Purpuras. Then one skein of Malabrigo Arroyo in Sea Slug. All of these skeins are destined to be hats. My brain cells are taken up by the new job some easy hat knitting feels good.
Next up was two skeins of 316 Dye Studio in their House DK and graffiti colorway. I have some of this in my stash for a sweater and my post COVID body needs more yardage. They are different dye lots so I will have to shade/alternate. But I’m okay with that. Lastly are two bunches of fiber from Malabrigo Nube in Solis and Indiecita colorways. I think I will spin each as singles and ply together. They coordinate nicely.
Someone asked me what I was making and I said ‘Happiness’ because you should never ask a knitter about their stash!
I took about two re-run episodes Bones to get two sets of size 4 US needles inserted into my Super Simple Summer Sweater project for its “surgery”.
And then during another re-run of NCIS I got the cuts made and un-raveled back to each set of live stitches. It was a little tricky ripping back due to the helical knitting method. But I managed.
Now I need to muster the alone time and mental preparedness to start Kitchener-ing roughly 300+ stitches. I was smart enough to put light bulb stitch markers on each first stitch so I could correctly re-assemble front and back.
Now I need to meditate before undertaking surgery. Happy Knitting!!
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