Back from vacation, I decided to take my turns at reorganizing my Chiefs Hat. I started my basic recipe with the yellow instead of the red. I am a little nervous at this stage because before the fold….it looks an awful lot like my original hat.
It’s getting so close to Halloween and I have SO MUCH TO DO. Knitting has become my refuge (and procrastination tool) as I head into busy holiday season. I don’t forsee this hat taking very long to finish at this rate.
Happy Knitting!!
I am over the moon with this finish. To me, this hat just came out so polished and beautiful. My 2024 WPF Hat is done and snuggled in the growing gift pile.
Pattern: My own basic 88 sts stockinette beanie “recipe”
Needles: US 8s
Yarn: Leading Men Fiber Arts in the color Chocolate Mousse
This is just about the perfect slouch for me in a hat. The decreases swirl nicely and fall at the correct part of my head. I am back to my “default” where I used 78 grams of worsted yarn for a 170 yard hat.
The Box Office worsted from Leading Men Fiber Arts is a great base. I would buy all the colors and knit this forever. It’s just a lovely combination of soft and sturdy. I would put this in a dead heat with Malabrigo Rios for my favorite hat yarn.
Happy Knitting!!
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!
With the finishing of my LSP hat, I had a whole in my travel knitting that needed filled. I admit to having had packed extra skeins of yarn in my suitcase for travel knitting. Worsted works up fast don’t you know!
I pulled the Chocolate Mousse skein of Leading Men Fiber Arts and started yet another basic Rachelle hat. This time, I got to cast on from a boat cruising the San Diego harbor! It’s back to my normal 88 stitches on a US 8s. And wooden 8s so as not to anger the TSA gods for travel.
It was lovely to sit in the sun, sip a mimosa and work on a hat! Happy Knitting!!
My Chiefs Hat is done!
Pattern: My own “recipe” for a worsted weight hat (this time with stripes)
Needles: US 8s
Yarn: Leading Men Fiber Arts Box Office Worsted in Poison Apple and Sweet Corn
I am happy with this hat and I think it achieves it’s vision. I do wish I had swapped the order of the red and yellow. But as I was starting with two full skeins, I have enough yarn to make a second hat with that order.
This used less yarn that I have typically been using. This weighed out to 65 grams, ten short of my normal, or roughly 137 yards of yarn. This could be that by actually counting rows for my brim that it is shorter than those I make by eyeballing length? Now, on to the next hat!
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!!
My Chiefs Hat has reached the brim stage!
Since this is my first non-solid color hat, I decided to use some math to keep stripes equal. I knit 20 rows (after cast on) in the red yarn. Then added 20 rows in the yellow before folding and attaching the brim. This makes a nice matching edge where the red and yellow meet at the “bottom” of the hat.
The stripes are fairly large. And I am starting with the next red section and I think I will make the hat body stipes 15 rows instead of 20. Rough math tells me that I will use each color twice in the hat body. (Tempting the match and knitting gods as I type)
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!!
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