Hat

[muninnhuginn]

My current winter hat is my Scareisle tam--yup, fair isle with more than a touch of Hallowe'en about it. This is fine in October, but a tad odd in January. So, this week I knit this:


I am in love with the yarn (Buachaille by Kate Davies Designs) and the pattern was sweet to knit. And the result is really warm--all that extra buk from the stranded knitwork.

Comments

[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

Oooh - Now that's a nice piece of knitting - And I do like the colours.

Teddy

[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

And I meant to ask - where's the pattern from?

Teddy

[muninnhuginn]

Thank you.

It's a Kate Davies design--Hat 101 (blog post here:https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2016/12/25/hat-101/ with link to the pattern on Ravelry [have you succumbed to Ravelry?]).

I used Kate's yarn too: Buachaille (https://www.shopkdd.com/yarn/buachaille). It's like the best Shetland I've worked with, but so much softer.

[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

I haven't joined Ravalry but I do get the occasional pattern from there.

Thanks for the link. I just bought the pattern.

I'd be knitting in doll scale (avout 1/3 in this case) so will have to experiment with lace-weight yarn (and needle sizes) rather than using her yarn.

Looking through the pattern it has something I've never done (cdd) so that's something new I've learned already (thank you Google!)

Teddy

[muninnhuginn]

I'm looking forward to seeing a doll-sized version: it ought to be really cute. With a pompom on top.

[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

When (or possibly if) I get around to making it, I'll share pictures.

Teddy

[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

OK, I'm stumped by the instructions:

"Increase Round: [k2, m1 (k1, m1) twice] 4 times"

Does that mean k2, m1, k1, m1, k2, m1, k1, m1, repeated four times,

OR

k2, m1, k1, m1, k2, m1 repeated four times?

Teddy

[muninnhuginn]

k2 m1 k1 m1 k1 m1 done four times.

[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

Really?

Wouldn't that be "[k2, m1 (k1, m1 twice)] 4 times"...?

Teddy

[muninnhuginn]

Looks like a tiny typo. But it gets you the correct number of stitches.

[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

Thankyou!

Teddy

[uk-sef.livejournal.com]

That looks like a well-knitted hat - and very much in the main trendy colour of the season this year (according to the fashion pontificators). I just designed a whole load of patterns in that green colour on Spoonflower (though I've been rather slow to proof them).

[muninnhuginn]

Thank you. And I had no idea I was choosing the "in" colour.

I'll have to look out for your designs on Spoonflower.

[uk-sef.livejournal.com]

My designs might not be your kind of thing but Spoonflower held a contest (http://www.spoonflower.com/contests/372) based on that green and some of us put extra co-ordinating designs here (http://www.spoonflower.com/tags/spoonflower0372).

[muninnhuginn]

Those are all rather cool. If I were ever to take up patchwork, I'd be picking some of those out.

[uk-sef.livejournal.com]

Spoonflower recently ran one of their design contests based around the colour (taken from Pantone's claims and some catwalk pictures) but apparently I'm not allowed to post links here!

At least you now know you'll be extra trendy this spring though.

[muninnhuginn]

"but apparently I'm not allowed to post links here"

Odd that. It flagged you as suspicious. You? Suspicious? :-)

[uk-sef.livejournal.com]

Oh I'm very suspicious - but also mostly harmless!

The majority of websites appear to view me as a bot of some kind. Many gadgets, including "smart" household units such as washing machines, do not recognise me as a real person / user for the purposes of pressing buttons. Many automatic doors on shops and banks etc similarly don't recognise me as real physical person - whereas apparently a large 2' by 4' flooring plank/slab does count!