My 2024 WPF Hat was my travel home knitting. It was an EARLY morning trip so I had to wait for the sun to come up in order to see the dark brown stitches.
As the wheels taxied to the gate, I pulled the yarn through and zipped up the remaining stitches to finish. I sat next to PB and the extra arm space was a great boost to knitting comfortably on the plane. I did have to pick up and put down a TON to administrate drinks for her and navigate her tablet.
FO coming at you! Happy Knitting!!
My conference had some down time, which was nice to give some time for family stuff AND some alone time. I grabbed an iced coffee and snuck out onto the balcony while the kids were washing up from the beach to work on my 2024 WPF Conference hat. That’s what I am call this, by the way.
I managed to get the brim knit, folded and attached to the hat body. I think I am getting faster at these hats especially on the stockinette versions. Flicking in stockinette has become my default knitting “mode” and its becoming quicker.
I haven’t counted my hat tally in awhile but it’s getting large, especially after vacation knitting!! Happy Crafting!
Conference knitting has arrived! This past week when my posts were auto-posting….the family and I snuck away to a conference in San Diego. And boy howdy, did I get a ton of knitting done (and work and family time).
I was in a room with 600+ ladies and I was one of two knitters. I very quickly became “orange hat lady” and had muggles approach me in the bathroom, lol. It was a 9 hour day so I made terrific progress on my Glazed Carrot hat.
Lots of people asked to touch it and were impressed with how soft the fabric is. That is the magic of a singles yarn with no plies, its soft! Stay tuned for the finished object shots…
Happy Knitting!!
After a full day of football watching, my Chiefs Hat is ready for decreases. Duke and I took a moment to relax on the patio for some sunshine and fresh air.
This time he chose not to lay directly on top of my knitting, which is an improvement. I was happy to see that I will use each color twice. It’s just that the last yellow section will be teeny weenie. But it will be there!
So I do have 15 stripes of red, 15 stripes of yellow, 15 stripes of red and will finish with a few of yellow. I *think* I can knock this out yet tonight and show you all a hat tomorrow! My mojo is cranking on high!
Happy Knitting!!
Okay, this Chiefs Hat is my singular focus this weekend. My mojo is all centered here.
I do have one niggling thought….”is this a Chiefs hat or a Winnie the Pooh hat?” As this works up I think I would have been more successful starting with yellow so that the red was on the brim facing outward.
Again, not bothered enough to actually pull this out and redo. But I will have enough yarn from each skein to perhaps try switching colors on a second hat. Just have to finish this first one. Happy Knitting!!
I am gearing up for some travel and I needed a “safe” project to travel with. Something easy, on wooden needles and a project I wouldn’t mind if TSA made me pull the needles out.
I grabbed the skein of Malabrigo Worsted that I bought on my lunch walk. It’s a singles yarn, so no plies. It won’t be the hardest wearing hat but the softness is out of this world. It’s called Glazed Orange but my midwestern brain just reads “Blaze Orange” for hunting safety.
I pushed myself NOT to do a stockinette brim and work 2×2 rib for some variety. It’s my standard 88 stitch hat on US 8s. I will fold that 2×2 brim for extra warmth and for sure this one will go into my gift pile. Which is quite large by now!
Happy Knitting!!
I am calling this hat made from Whimzee Stitches yarn my 2024 Pigskin Party Hat. And I took it along with me to a recent sporting event.
Turns our professional soccer games are SUPER long. So by the time we made it to the car, I had an almost finished hat!
The spirals did take a jog when I folded and attached the cast on edge for a brim. Everything shifted almost a full color and a half. It does make the brim stand out distinctly from the hat body.
I am loving these spirals so wonderfully that I think I might do a 3-needle bind off and square this hat off. A la the Pussy Hat style top. That way these spirals are not being broken up by the decreases.
Happy Knitting!!
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!!
My US 8s were empty after finishing my Another Royal Hat. Therefore I needed to start another hat. This time I grabbed some yarn from SSK 2024 that would earn me some extra points in the Down Cellar Studio Pigskin party KAL.
This skein has a very rainbow like palette and looked to be variegated in the skein. But I was pleased to find that at my 88 stitch count and my gauge, it spirals! Each rainbow is wrapping around the hat so far.
I tried to hide in the basement to knit and do laundry. But PB and Duke had other ideas. Duke is REALLY good at climbing on me to block my knitting progress. He believes in less knitting and more ear scritches!
It’s now leggings and fire pit season! Fall has arrived even though we get a few hot flashes that make us feel second summer. I managed some toasty toes and hat knitting outdoors.
I have my Uptown Hat all the way to the decreases. I should have like 30/40 minutes of knitting left. I am finding this acrylic is easier to knit with grabbier wooden needles than the smooth metal. Probably should have figured that out sooner, but we still got here.
I find myself looking at the stitch definition on this and marveling. There is zero halo and all the little Vs just march right along. It looks and feels very orderly. And I think I am getting better at keeping gauge as I pick up and put down. I notice I get looser when I get sleepy or tired.
Does your gauge move around on you?
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