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Those Are Letters

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Turns out colorwork is a little addicting. I worked on my Chiefs Touchdown Beanie until it was way too late and I was nestled in bed.

On the first round I tried to carry the red all the way around. And that proved problematic as I could not keep enough slack as I was catching the floats. So I am adjusting to the fact that I will have 1,000,000 ends to weave in later. I am leaving very long ends of the red as I start and stop each colorwork row and then using the gold all the way around.

I really hope this blocks out as it looks a wee bit small on the needles! Happy Knitting!!

Touchdown Beanie Progress

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I have recently had the urger to clear out my WIP pile. So this means I need to get back to my Chiefs Touchdown Beanie. I slogged for what seems like forever on the 2×2 ribbing and I am now adding the other colors.

I made the decision to use the gold as the background for the red letter rather than the white. This means I will use basically nothing of the white and have a nice leftover. I just like how the gold and red play on each other.

I took a photo of those two yarns and changed it to black and white to make sure I had enough contrast for the letters to stand out. I am little nervous as I have not yet done proper colorwork with a chart and I am sure I will be fine.

Happy Knitting!!

Cozy Handspun Decreases And A Finish

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My Handspun Hat is finished and oh so cozy!

Pattern: My own basic beanie “recipe” with 72 stiches

Yarn: My own bulky (thick and thin) handspun

Needles: US 10s

This hat weighs roughly 120 grams and round about 100 yards of yarn. It is sufficiently large enough for my noggin. This hat will not be going into the gift bin. This will be a Rachelle hat. I have a couple of yards of handspun left but not enough to really do anything with. I put it in my scrap bag just in case.

I need to see if I have any more skeins of handspun to make hats with! Or you know work on the sparkly handspun hat that has been languishing for AWHILE, lol.

Happy Knitting!!

Damn Twist

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While spectacularly getting my arse handed to me in Uno: No Mercy, I was knitting in my Scandia Hat and realized the damn thing is twisted…..

So I ripped that sucker out and started over. This time with no Uno cards and a glass of wine.

I opted to skip the 2×2 ribbing this time and just do stockinette. I chose solace in the comfy chair with the gas fire place that took longer to figure out that I would like to admit. I am still loving this yarn from my Christmas stocking. It really held up well to knitting and ripping back. The cast on row was a little sticky but came apart fine.

Happy Knitting!!

Dewberry Progress

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The Dewberry Hat is zooming along. Imagine that! It’s only bulky yarn on US 10 needles, lol.

This is a 100 gram skein and I need to weigh where I am at. I think I will save the 15 or 20 grams to do the ribbing? I will knit until the yarn chicken gods yell at me to stop and then cast off in ribbed pattern.

I am keeping a stitch marker on the beginning of round. And I was too lazy to find a big enough one to fit on these large needles so I am clipping it to the row and just moving it up once in awhile.

Happy Knitting!!

Handspun Hat Progress

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I am really loving how my Handspun Hat is coming out!

I am getting close to the end of this handspun skein and probably need to start the decreases. The yarn is a 2-ply from a braid I split down the middle. I can tell where my fiber colors lined up and therefore give me solid color chunks versus the barber poling. It is giving the hat an almost striped appearance?

It’s true when they say that you should knit with your handspun so you can see what how it works up in fabric. Is it my most even yarn? Absolutely not but will make a cozy hat! I am knitting on US 10.5s and I don’t have that sized DPNs. I am just going to make due with the US 8s again and try to manually manage my gauge to finish.

Happy Knitting!!

That’s Better

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This is WAY better for my Iris Hat!

I am beginning to think I should have started top down instead of bottom up. I have ZERO clue on how to gauge when to do decreases and not run out of yarn. And I have such little bitty bit of previous hat left.

I think I am just going to knit until it’s almost gone and then Kitchener it closed. It would be a quasi Pussy Hat ala the late 2010s. It should then make a decent adult sized hat right? I really should know better by now, lol.

Happy Knitting!!

All The Essentials

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I am finally picking back up my Deep & Meaningful Hat!

It’s cold, it’s dark and still February. So I decided to grab all the self care essentials….Diet Coke and Knitting. I am using handspun so I am VERY unsure how far I can get with this hat. Probably another project I should have done top down. But I’m not going back now. Future Rachelle might regret those words.

I did like 3.5 or 4 inches of ribbing and then folded the brim over to start the main body. I did not log the yardage of this handspun skein when I put it in Ravelry so I really don’t know what I am working with. It is 120 grams total weight and therefore I should be make a decent hat size?

Maybe I just need more Diet Coke!? Happy Knitting!!

This Isn’t Going To Work

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Okay, I have to admit defeat. This hat at this gauge and with this yarn….is not going to work. RIP first attempt at my Iris Hat.

I am flat going to run out of yarn on this project. My needles are too small and the stitch count is too high. Not to mention that I can’t get this brim over my head. It’s weirdly to dense and small. All around failure.

I ran over to my LYS, which is closing, and grabbed some US 10s on a 16 inch circular cord so I can frog this hat and restart. I will:

  • Use bigger needles
  • Modify the stitch count down
  • Reduce the height of the folded brim
  • Possibly consider a straight cast off and go for the cat ears look?

Good news, is that I haven’t wasted that much time and this should get up and going quickly again. Thank goodness for bulky yarn. I am not even going to rewind this. I am finding the other end of the yarn and knitting the new hat from the old hat, lol.

Happy Knitting!!

Cast On: Dewberry Hat

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My mom’s trip is bearing down on me and I need to get these last hats done! I already had the Iris Hat on the needles and I also started this second hat in Malabrigo Mecha in a color called Dewberry.

I am sensing some doom on my other hat. So for this one I cast on fewer stitches to make this bulky skein go farther. I think I am at 70 ish stitches for a vanilla stockinette beanie. I am waffling on folded brim or no folded brim.

I really should finish the Iris first so I don’t make the same mistakes twice. But where is the fun in that! Happy Knitting!!