Hats off
When I started this blog nearly a year ago, some of my early posts (see here and here) featured hats that I'd made. It's time for a sequel, and once again Sylvia is the model.
I'm a big fan of the Jester Hat in The Yarn Girls' Guide to Kid Knits: Patterns for Babies and Toddlers by Julie Carles and Jordana Jacobs. I've probably made at least a dozen of these. Last year I made one for Maggie, the daughter of my friend MAC, and Maggie loved her hat so much that the tassels fell off. (Of course, it didn't help that I used a less-than-adequate tassel-creation-and-fastening technique. I've since learned a much better one that yields sturdier results.) So I decided to make her a new one for this winter, figuring that her head is surely bigger. She's four and a half now--still in the exploding-growth years--so that's a fair assumption. But then I thought, "Hey...I wonder if I could make a triple-pointed hat?" So I winged my way through this and in the process created my first pattern! (I probably ought to write it down, eh?) As you can see, I ran out of orange yarn after I finished the first point, so I used different colors for the other two points and the tassels. I hope Maggie likes it! (With luck, I'll put this in the mail this week or next. So if you read this before you get the package, MAC, just feign surprise, okay?)
Over the Labor Day weekend, I started--and completed--a baby hat while visiting Jan's mom. I based it on the simple baby hat in Debbie Bliss's Baby Knits for Beginners, but added my own touches: two different yarns and a funky topknot. The dark-green bottom is cotton, and the multicolored part is some ribbon yarn. Both weren't easy to work with at first, since I kept poking them in the middle with my needle, thus separating the strands. But eventually I got the hang of it! This one is a gift for a friend (and former boss) of mine, who recently adopted a daughter from China. I haven't met her yet, so I have no idea what her head size is, but I think she's three or four months younger than Sylvia, so I'm guessing this will fit her. Eventually.
Here's a hat I started--and finished--last weekend, while visiting my parents. (Out-of-town travel seems to be good for my knitting!) It's basically the same pattern as the previous hat, but in a smaller size. The bottom is a Noro yarn (Iroha, I think--I've lost the label) that's mostly cotton with a bit of cashmere and nylon thrown in, and the top is regular ol' wool. I'm sending this to a friend who's expecting her second child in October, so it's slightly-bigger-than-newborn size (which is why it looks so tiny on Sylvia's head).
I'm a big fan of the Jester Hat in The Yarn Girls' Guide to Kid Knits: Patterns for Babies and Toddlers by Julie Carles and Jordana Jacobs. I've probably made at least a dozen of these. Last year I made one for Maggie, the daughter of my friend MAC, and Maggie loved her hat so much that the tassels fell off. (Of course, it didn't help that I used a less-than-adequate tassel-creation-and-fastening technique. I've since learned a much better one that yields sturdier results.) So I decided to make her a new one for this winter, figuring that her head is surely bigger. She's four and a half now--still in the exploding-growth years--so that's a fair assumption. But then I thought, "Hey...I wonder if I could make a triple-pointed hat?" So I winged my way through this and in the process created my first pattern! (I probably ought to write it down, eh?) As you can see, I ran out of orange yarn after I finished the first point, so I used different colors for the other two points and the tassels. I hope Maggie likes it! (With luck, I'll put this in the mail this week or next. So if you read this before you get the package, MAC, just feign surprise, okay?)
Over the Labor Day weekend, I started--and completed--a baby hat while visiting Jan's mom. I based it on the simple baby hat in Debbie Bliss's Baby Knits for Beginners, but added my own touches: two different yarns and a funky topknot. The dark-green bottom is cotton, and the multicolored part is some ribbon yarn. Both weren't easy to work with at first, since I kept poking them in the middle with my needle, thus separating the strands. But eventually I got the hang of it! This one is a gift for a friend (and former boss) of mine, who recently adopted a daughter from China. I haven't met her yet, so I have no idea what her head size is, but I think she's three or four months younger than Sylvia, so I'm guessing this will fit her. Eventually. 
Here's a hat I started--and finished--last weekend, while visiting my parents. (Out-of-town travel seems to be good for my knitting!) It's basically the same pattern as the previous hat, but in a smaller size. The bottom is a Noro yarn (Iroha, I think--I've lost the label) that's mostly cotton with a bit of cashmere and nylon thrown in, and the top is regular ol' wool. I'm sending this to a friend who's expecting her second child in October, so it's slightly-bigger-than-newborn size (which is why it looks so tiny on Sylvia's head).
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