the blue blog archives: send in the frogs

'Cause this hat is getting ripped. Here's the very sad story. Wait, knit yourself a hanky first then come back....

Okay, so my favorite knitted hat of all time - my Malabrigo Le Beret has gone missing.

Loved that hat! Loved that yarn! Perfect color, perfect fit. It was the perfect hat. Well, it did have a hole in it after 4 years of wear, but I was gonna fix that, I swear. As I went to pull out the winter wear (hats, gloves, scarves, etc.) I could not find the hat anywhere. THE hat. After going through the various stages of grief - denial took a long time since I kept going back to search through the same spots over and over - I decided to move on and make a new one. I have the pattern still and I even have a skein of Malabrigo. It's not the same perfect sky blue shade that was in THE hat though. And I'd done something with the numbers in the pattern to get it to fit so perfectly, but I didn't jot that down on my pattern. Bugger.

I made several cast on attempts, found a stitch count and needle size I liked and went for it. I knitted away, telling myself that as soon as I finished this replacement hat, I'd find the old one. And then I'd have two! Apparently you can't say that sort of thing out loud and after eight inches of knitting I was punished by having the hat just look horrible and all wrong on me. I think I left out some increases. I think I knit it too tight. I think I jinxed it.

It's time to frog and try again. But first a little whine because I just want my old hat back. Waaaah and ribbit.

posted by alison at 5:29 pm | in smells like snow

Comments

Oh, so sorry! I have a favorite scarf that I knit a few years ago. And it has also gone missing. Now, I do have more of the same yarn and I KNOW that as soon as I make another scarf, the original will turn up.

Likewise, I had or have an older knitting book that had great basic patterns. I bought it in 1969 at a small-town variety store and it contains the pattern for the first socks I ever knit for my dad. I was in the 9th grade. It also has some other wonderful basic patterns and I last used the book 2 years ago for some slippers. Well, now I can not find it anywhere. I happened across a seller on etsy who had one and have ordered it. Now, of course, I fully expect to find the missing booklet as soon as I receive the other one in the mail. At least then I will have a spare....

Posted by: Sandee at November 10, 2009 6:11 PM

It was a beautifully blue hat, and very becoming! I hope you remember how you changed the pattern so that the new hat is as lovely!
Our lost story is kinda funny. When we moved seven years ago, we couldn't find the clock from John's office. It wasn't anywhere in any box! I thought it might have been put into a charity donation box by mistake. So we bought a new clock. No, the old one didn't magically appear, as I hope your hat will. We moved two weeks ago, and the last load of things I put into the car to move to the new place, was from hubby's office. I tossed the bag of large padded envelopes over toward the box, and it went clunk. There was the clock, safely swaddled in padded envelopes! Funny that we found it the day we moved!!!
Hope your hat reappears without your having to move...

Posted by: samm at November 10, 2009 6:33 PM

So sorry about your hat. I rennet when you knit it & how lovely the color was.

Posted by: Donna at November 10, 2009 7:33 PM

Sorry about your hat!!!!!!! Good luck with the replacement... keep tweaking and I just know you can figure it out!

Posted by: Lauren at November 10, 2009 9:22 PM

Love the story, Samm. I remember finding long lost matchbox cars and puzzle pieces when we moved. Funny how those things show up again!

Posted by: ALISON at November 10, 2009 11:09 PM

My favorite place to "lose" hats is the pocket of one of my coats. Did you check there? :-)

Posted by: Laurie at November 11, 2009 12:06 AM

It's especially hard to reproduce something without the original to compare it to!

Posted by: Mary K. in Rockport at November 11, 2009 11:20 AM

Under "do as I say, not as I do":
write...
this...
one...
down... :)

Thanks for reminding me

Posted by: Linda at November 11, 2009 4:46 PM