…it makes me knit. A lot. Ah, hooray for the return of cold weather!
First one up is THE STRANDED PROJECT
Whoo hooo! This was the first big stranding project I did. I finished a wonderful, awesome mitten as my warm up, but have yet to photo it/start on the second one. Which I totally need to do because it’s getting COLD.
The yarn is all from New Lanark. This was a quick project and totally gave me practice in English throwing knitting. I don’t knit with my right hand. At all. I really persevered and tried my best to knit with two hands. I think I’m getting better! I just need more practice in holding the yarn!
Then I went to Brighton to visit my friend and saw her hat.
My friend Kiki has a hat from Accessorize. It’s a simply knit hat and I hate the fact that it cost her so much. But I loved the style of the hat so much that I wanted to make one myself.
This was super simple and done in a day.
My Anti-Accessorize Hat Recipe
2 Balls of Sidar Big Softie (Chunky)
2 circ 10.5 needles ( because I like to knit hats on two cirs. You could use one 16″ circ or DPNs
1-Cast on 60
2-Knit 4 rows of k1p1 ribbing
3-K one row of *K2Tog, YO*
4-Knit one row
5- Repeat steps 3 &4 9 more times for a total of 20 rows from ribbed edge
Begin decreases.
6- *K7, K2Tog* repeat to end. Note: The last repeat only has 8 stitches, so you will have to K6, K2Tog.
7- Knit one row
8- *K 6, K2Tog*. Repeat to end. Just make sure to knit the last two stitches together in the last repeat section.
9- Knit one row
10-*K5, K2Tog*, etc, etc.
Hopefully you see the pattern. Keep decreasing one row, then knitting one row until you get down to the part where you *K1, K2Tog*. Follow through with the pattern.
-Next row: K2Tog
-K2Tog again. Continue until you get down to 4 or 3 stitches. You can either break yarn and draw through live stitches, or continue on as I did with a 3 row I-Cord.
Whoo hoo!
November 23, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Beautiful pattern! Very clear directions, too. 🙂 It looks divine on you!