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Friday, November 8, 2013

A hat for Mike

Another hat! Carrying on with the Christmas knitting, I completed a hat for my Uncle Mike. 




This is what you get when you ask my seven year old to take a close up of the hat:

The pattern is free, Susies Winter Beach Hat. I used some Fisherman's Wool I had in my stash.

I didn't particularly like making this hat. I followed the pattern and it was much too small (think skull cap), so I had to rip back and make it the right size (thank goodness the diameter was ok). An upside of making it though, is that I got to practice cabling with using a cable needle, which I had never done before. I was getting annoyed at having to cable every row, and it was such a small cable every few stitches. So learning this new technique was very worthwhile, and really sped things up



Anyhoo, it turned out nice, and that's one more present done. I can't wait to show you the second shawl I've completed, I love it. I didn't get a chance to take any pictures this week however, so, same time next week ok!! See you then.

11 comments:

  1. I'm sure he'll like it...it looks snuggly warm....

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  2. I love knitting with Fisherman's Wool. It's so warm. Beautiful job on the hat too!

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  3. nice close up, I did get a great view of the stitch definition :) Your knitting needles are on fire!! Keep it going :)

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  4. Oh I love that hat! I've had a fully-cabled hat in my head for a while now and this is very close to what I was thinking. Thanks!

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  5. I tried my first cabling project ... a pair of socks in fingering weight yarn. Ugh. I don't recommend starting that small! LOL Great job on the hat!

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  6. I find hat patterns to be either too shallow or too huge! I need to develop my own tried and true pattern and just plug in patterns as I desire.

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  7. Aw cosy hat! And yay for learning a new skill too!

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  8. Lovely hat! Your 7 year old is a budding photographer, nice close up!

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  9. It's gorgeous! And your seven year old has some mad skillz.

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  10. Oh, I recognise that yarn ... I love Fisherman's Wool! I like that cabling pattern ... very nice!

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  11. Great colour choice for that hat. It looks fantastic.

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