ARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
D’you know what? Anxiety, it sucks, it really does. The wonderful Hannah gave me some balls of crazy eyelash yarn (she’s also making me a corset! and a baby! but she is keeping the baby), which I don’t like working with, but it makes some great hat brims. I had no other wool on me but everyone else was knitting, so I thought I’d knock up a quick tiny hat entirely of eyelash yarn. What’s the worst that could happen?
I will tell you! Knitting with the eyelash yarn made me really really overly terrified. Properly stuck-in-a-tiny-box terrified. I had to put it away in my bag, and I finished it later with ordinary yarn because I couldn’t face the eyelash stuff again. Which is why the hat on the left is mostly eyelash yarn, with a blue bit on the top. It’s like a big fuzzy wig with a tight-fitting hat on top, no?
The second hat was more, er, under control. And I’m still up to date!
Do you hold the eyelash yarn with regular yarn? I’ve found that’s the only way I can stand using it. It’s just so gross.
Maybe that would have helped, but no, I’ve never thought to try that. Maybe that’s where I’ve been going wrong all this time! 😉 I think if I held it with regular yarn as well, it might be a bit… thick? Dense? But I’ll give it a go when I remember, because if I just do the brim, then I could knit with the main colour for the whole hat and just drop the eyelash yarn after three rounds for the brim.
I hope all that made sense. 😉 Thanks!
I’ve done it before (mostly for felting) and it doesn’t make it too thick, but it does help you keep control of the yarn.
Your project is really interesting. Do you always use the same pattern, or do you mix it up and make something different every now and then.
I use the same basic pattern, but I do mix it up a little bit when I’m feeling adventurous… 🙂
Bunny: https://365hats.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/hats-143-and-144-bunny-from-hell/
NSFW: https://365hats.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/hat-88-90-nsfw/
Sheep: https://365hats.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/hat-2-sheepy-sheep/
Joss Whedon’s Firefly: https://365hats.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/hat-179-fireflys-jayne-cobb/