Hat 58: Endings

Too lazy for the camera again

This hat used up two very small balls of wool. The green-blue plied stuff was given to me by Joe, and it’s strange that it’s all gone because there was loads of it.

Three left to do today… again.

ETA: Oh yes, look! I finished Barnaby the Sclocket (Rav link)! Maybe a pattern will follow.

Scarf+glove+pocket = Sclocket

Hat 57: For finding the smoothie at night

My eyyyyyes!

This hat is even brighter in real life, it’s just freaky. I unraveled a half-finished square just before I moved, and these are the colours it used to be. Terrifying, no? To think that would’ve gone into my blanket!

PS: Three left to do today…

Hat 56: Gharstly

Clutter cunningly hidden behind giant knitting

So named because Joe was going on about Pokemon or some such at the time and commented on how nasty the colours were together. I kind of like the combination. Not that I would wear it, but I still like it.

In this photo, you can see the giant knitting I did on broom handles with strips of fabric for my one hour on the Fourth Plinth for One and Other.

I can’t believe that this one is the first I’ve done with earflaps! I did loads during my first year. So, I think this calls for a pattern.

ETA: So I have to do four tomorrow now.

Pattern

Knit your usual hat.

Pick up 6 stitches from your cast-on row. The hat will be upside down, with the outside/right side facing you.

Row 1: Knit 6. Turn the work.

Row 2: Purl 6. Turn the work.

Rows 3 – 6: Repeat rows 1-2.

Row 7: Knit 2 together, knit 2, knit 2 together. (4 stitches remaining.)

Row 8: Knit 1, knit 2 together, knit 1. (3 stitches remaining.)

Rows 9 – 22: I-cord (YouTube link). Knit 3, slide stitches to the other end of your circular or double-pointed needle. Repeat.

Row 23: Pull the yarn through really far on each stitch so you end up with really big loops.

Cut a long tail. Hold all the looooong stitches and the tail in one hand and tie a single overhand knot. Pull it tight and cut the loops. Trim to taste.

The second flap should not be exactly opposite the first – most hats have earflaps slightly toward the back of the hat. (Perhaps this is too much attention to detail, but to me it just looks a bit wrong if the flaps are exactly opposite.)

Hats 50-55: Continental jealousy

I tried to get the view, but all you see is the horrific state of my windowsills

You can just see the lighthouse on the far right. Yes, that is the sea, lots of it. It’s also a cracking view of the city at dusk but you can’t really see that because of the focus. So I took some marginally better ones. Viola:

Slightly better view of the lighthouse

To the left next to the red chimney stack is the Waterfront Winter Wonderland big wheel

I love the view at dusk, when you can still see the colours of the rooftops and people are starting to put the lights on. Christmas all year!

And finally, the reason for the title – my lovely friend Nina in Germany. This is her enviable view from the window!

I am most jealous.

Oh yes, and I’ve done six hats – that leaves five tomorrow to get up to date. Ouch!

I’m back!

Ohai! I am moved into my new place, I have the internet and I even have my cat. It’s time to start on my inevitable path to crazy-spinster-with-cats, starting with NINE missed smoothie hats! Blimey. I might have to do some today and some tomorrow. By tomorrow it’ll be 10, so I’ll aim for five today and five tomorrow. ARGH! (It is worth it though.)

DOOM!

Well, okay, not really. It’s just that tonight I am really poorly and can’t breathe through my nose AT ALL, and so I can’t knit a hat. And tomorrow I’m moving house, and I won’t have the internet there until 11th December, so I won’t be able to post photos of hats for a while. I will knit a hat per day though, and I will make sure to take good photos of them in my new place.

Sorry!

Hat 49: Recycled slippers

Three cool things

Annie, who I am staying with, has some amazing Primark furry slipper-boots. They are super comfy, but sadly the two pairs of bobbles fell off! :O Onoes!

She very kindly gave them to me for the hat-knitting cause, so I thought today would be a good day to show one of them off. I have three left.

Please note two really awesome potential Christmas presents in the background that your friends and family will always appreciate. The first is some Divine fair trade chocolate, which is coffee-flavoured and delicious. (I don’t even like coffee.) The second is Bananagrams, which is THE COOLEST GAME EVER. It is compact, fun and quick to play, and will appeal to anyone who likes words and such.

I would like to take this opportunity to shamelessly promote my new knitting pattern, called Button Vines. It’s for a pair of chunky wristwarmers with cables and buttons on, and you can download the pattern for free on Ravelry or you can pay a leetle bit of money on Coriandr if you’re not on Rav.

I have a manky cold so I’m going to rest now. Nighty night.

ETA: The weeny hats were clogging up the box again, and the hatometer (link to the right) has been stuck below the target for a good few weeks now, so I thought I might as well send them off and such. A nice fresh start for my new flat seems like a good idea. They’re all parceled up, and I will try to post them tomorrow. There were 31!

Hat 48: Camouflaged

Can you see the hat?

It’s some blue and white Denim Tweed again – I’m starting to run low, which is a shame, because it’s lovely to knit with.

 

I’m made sooooo many hats! I want to send them off so I’ve got room in the box for more. Cool.

Hats 47 & 48: From Joe again

A blue one and a purple one

Two hats from Joe’s wool! Not much else to add, really.

Hats 43-46: Joe is awesome

Joe is wearing awesome glubs too

Viola! Three weeny hats, modeled by the fabulous Joe, who made his wristwarmers, and they are GREAT.

Joe also gave me some nice wool for future hats, yay! Thank you, Joe!

That is all.