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Finished: Bonnie Mae Hat

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DPNs were located and my Bonnie Mae Hat is now in the FO pile!

Pattern: My own basic beanie recipe, this time with 72 stitches and a ribbed brim

Yarn: Republica Unicornia in Rambouillet Worsted in the Bonnie Mae color

Needles: US 10s

I used 186 yards of yarn or 95 grams. This was 115 gram skein so I left 20 grams on the table. In hindsight I could have made this a wee bit taller. Kind of a fatal flaw in my process based on my fear of playing yarn chicken. Still a perfectly serviceable adult hat in the end.

Now for a glass of wine to celebrate and to move to my next project! Happy Knitting!!

Bonnie Mae Decreases

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As predicted, the Bonnie Mae Hat took exactly 15 seconds to complete the stockinette hat portion.

I need to grab a tape measure but I should be close to decreases. Which is good, because my yarn ball is rapidly shrinking. It has been interesting to see what this hand dyed yarn does in ribbing versus stockinette. The light isn’t the greatest now that it gets dark at 5 pm, but I feel like the ribbing looks darker?

Now to dig out my DPNs and wrap this puppy up! Happy Knitting!!

A Bonnie May Turn

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My Bonnie Mae hat been languishing in my bag since a casting on binge a couple of weeks ago. I don’t really know why as this is very heavy/thick worsted and the hat will take 13 seconds to knit.

So in between throwing a toy for Duke I cranked out the ribbing and completed the folded hem. I am working 72 stitches on US 10 needles to account for the rounder/thicker yarn. Now I am just zooming up the stockinette portion and binging Man On the Inside.

Happy Knitting!!

FO: LSP Hat Redo

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I was so fussed with flying with two children (it was their first time) that I didn’t even notice that I had finished my LSP Redo Hat on the plane ride to California. But that meant PB was able to help me with some tropical FO photos.

Pattern: A modified version of my beanie “recipe”

Needles: US 10s

Yarn: Republica Unicornia Rambioullet Worsted in the LSP colorway

This second version of that hat does use 72 stitches instead of 88. And bigger needles to get a more workable gauge. This is one that I probably could have made a smidge taller but I was in auto knitter mode and just finished it.

This was a thicker and rounder yarn than my other worsteds. So even though I used 78 grams of the total skein that it only equated to 153 yards of yarn. So plumper and smaller. I am going to block it aggressively to see what I can gain. Still, a finished hat for the gift pile! It will fit someone eventually…

Happy Knitting!!

Jellybean Knits Now

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I may have lost my LSP Redo Hat to Jellybean. He got bored on a recent car trip to an event so I handed him my knitting and gave him like 10 minutes of instruction. Dang if that kid didn’t figure it out and just took off in stockinette in the round.

He knit through most of the event and would occasionally hand me the work to fix dropped stitches or double wraps. But this fingers and eyes were generally aware when he had a problem. I did have to fix roughly 10 additional dropped stitches when we got home that he didn’t catch.

Bonus? His gauge was not that far off from mine! So his stitches are going to stay in the hat and I don’t think any muggles will notice in the FO. I am being cautious to see if he is going to keep knitting, I might get him his own needles and ball of yarn and see what happens.

Happy Knitting!!

Cast On: LSP Hat Redo

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Good Saturday morning from my peaceful patio. The Duke and I decided to skip Bluey for the morning and sit outside. He’s eating a stick and I re-started my LSP hat that I frogged.

I did chose to go down to 80 stitches on US 10s. It’s starting out much better than the previous one. Still going with a folded stockinette brim and shooting for an adult sized hat. Duke is shooting for tearing up his stomach with wood pulp, lol.

Happy Knitting!!

Thanks, I Hate It

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I should have listened to my gut. Turns out I HATED how my LSP hat was knitting up. The fabric was dense and not forgiving at all. It was so stiff that it was barely curling. So to the frog pond it went!

The yarn is back to it’s natural state. I was using US 8 needles and I think I would be better suited to go up to US 10s and then reduce down in stitch count. Rough math makes me think I could go down to 80 instead of 88. The hat is basically a swatch so I think I will start with that and see what happens. I can always rip out again!

Happy Knitting!!

Cast On: LSP Hat

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I am really feeling the cast-on-itis around here. Especially with all the yummy yarn I picked up at SSK. I have given up the ghost and I now have multiple hats on the go. This latest hat is a new to me dyer, Republica Unicornia.

This is their Rambouillet Worsted in the LSP colorway. I don’t get the reference, but I’m sure the name is one. It’s a lovely neutral grey base with rainbow splatters and speckles. I think it will make a wonderful vanilla beanie where the yarn shines.

One hesitation is that I am working my standard “recipe” of 88 sts on US 8 needles. This worsted is very round and plump. The beginning fabric is very dense. But I am only three rows in and I need some more fabric before I can really tell if I like it.

It should be okay right? Happy Knitting!!