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february 1, 2010
snow flake
Oooh, love the snowflakes on this snowflake hat! And how 'bout that Maine Coast Blue color, which is almost green and totally fab with the Deep Sea Blue below? This hat came out just as I had imagined it. What a fun and easy little colorwork project!
The only change I made from the pattern was to shorten the top of the hat. It looked too tall in several of the photos I'd seen on Ravelry and as I was working the decreases on the top, I could tell that mine was going that way too. So I worked the decrease round/plain round combination only five times and then just did decrease rounds until I was at the very top. It fits me great - nice and snug and warm - but also sits nicely on wee's little head. (She's a much better model though!) Which got me thinking that I should make her one of these. She helped me dig through the yarn in my stash to find some yarn that matched her winter jacket perfectly. (The bottom two were the winners!)
She was so excited! One snowflake hat for my little snow flake, coming up!
posted by alison at 2:36 pm | in
smells like snow
Comments
I love how flexible hat sizing is. I made a hat to sell last month, but it fits me almost perfectly (it's not quite deep enough)! By measurements, it should fit a toddler just fine. Posted by: Seanna Lea at February 1, 2010 3:00 PMI love that hat! Posted by: Roslyn at February 1, 2010 3:20 PMI made that hat once and I loved it, except that I had a "jog" in mine where the pattern chart didn't quite match up because it was knit in the round. Did I mess up? Yours looks jogless... Posted by: Jess at February 1, 2010 4:24 PMJess, there's always a jog when you're working a color pattern in the round. It never bothers me. (I just make that the back of the hat!) You'll see jogs in store-bought socks even! But there are some techniques to avoid the jog if it makes you crazy: Meg's Jogless Jog I am loving that hat! The last post (before you changed to the lighter blue) made me think of old blue and white china, my small collection of which sits on my windowsill and cheers me up when the weather stinks. I dug into my old embroidery graphs for some patterns based on centuries-old Chinese designs and I think I'm gonna make myself a blue and white china hat! Gotta get me some yummy cobalt blue Cascade 220... Posted by: LibbyH at February 1, 2010 8:48 PMYou were done so fast! I love the hat. Posted by: SockPixie at February 1, 2010 10:12 PM¡fantastico el gorro! Alison, Thanks so much for the reply! It was my first colorwork project, so I thought that I had muffed it up! I appreciate knowing that it's always that way. It doesn't really bother me, either... I just thought it was a mistake on my part! Still, I'll check out those links that you posted about possible fixes. Many thanks for setting me straight! Posted by: Jess at February 2, 2010 12:42 PMWhat a gift to your class! I love how I recognize wee one from just a glimpse and even dolly. Thanks for inviting us in. Posted by: LoriAngela at February 2, 2010 3:28 PMLove the blue combination. The hat turned out great! Posted by: Louise at February 6, 2010 5:12 PM |
