I've been meaning to block this sweater and another one that I finished back in like, July, for MONTHS and not gotten around to it. Also haven't gotten around to wearing them and getting photos of them on me in natural light for Ravelry either.
I HAVE blocked this striped sweater and worn it out several times, but I still haven't gotten a proper picture of it, either:
Meanwhile, I've put the lightweight cashmere sweater I covet on hold again because it's too thin to wear in this season, but rather than starting another sweater I've gotten into hats. Our winter accessories are... somewhere... right now... that is, not all of them, there are just a handful of hats and gloves and scarves that we've been wearing, but we can't remember where the rest of the stash is, and that includes![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
waxjism's favorite hat, and I lost my favorite hat last year.
This extra-tight-gauge Sockhead Slouch was my favorite, and it's made from a tightspun sock yarn blend with cashmere that none of our yarnstores carry anymore. Wax's was the same pattern, but modified for a shorter crown and heavier yarn.
I have a backup hat from the same pattern left, but it's a bit looser fitting and also looser gauge, so it isn't as good. And there are no more with foldup brims left, so Wax has just been going back and forth between three or four hats that she doesn't like as much.
I tried to make a new hat for her, a plain 2x2 ribbed beanie, but it was disastrous: I ran out of yarn and then after I picked a substitute yarn to make a contrast top with I still bound off too soon, and it looks like a condom on BOTH of us, as Wax predicted when I handed it to her; and it isn't long enough to fold over, so it wouldn't be warm enough anyway.
So of course, completely logically...
...now I'm trying to make a Fair Isle hat! I'm SUPER excited about that. Using this free traditional tam pattern, Katie's Kep by Wilma Malcolmson from Shetland Wool Week, and a few miniskeins of plant-dyed handspun finnwool from the sheep and goat fair.
I've been meaning to get into Fair Isle knitting for years and a hat, being a small project, is the best way to start. There is very little guarantee that it will come out well, or fit either of us nicely if it does, but Wax didn't want me ordering any new yarn for hats when we have a bunch more somewhere that we haven't found and we have more yarn than will fit in the glass-fronted case. Learning Fair Isle, as a project, is exciting anyway, even if it doesn't work as a hat for me.
I HAVE blocked this striped sweater and worn it out several times, but I still haven't gotten a proper picture of it, either:
Meanwhile, I've put the lightweight cashmere sweater I covet on hold again because it's too thin to wear in this season, but rather than starting another sweater I've gotten into hats. Our winter accessories are... somewhere... right now... that is, not all of them, there are just a handful of hats and gloves and scarves that we've been wearing, but we can't remember where the rest of the stash is, and that includes
waxjism's favorite hat, and I lost my favorite hat last year.This extra-tight-gauge Sockhead Slouch was my favorite, and it's made from a tightspun sock yarn blend with cashmere that none of our yarnstores carry anymore. Wax's was the same pattern, but modified for a shorter crown and heavier yarn.
I have a backup hat from the same pattern left, but it's a bit looser fitting and also looser gauge, so it isn't as good. And there are no more with foldup brims left, so Wax has just been going back and forth between three or four hats that she doesn't like as much.
I tried to make a new hat for her, a plain 2x2 ribbed beanie, but it was disastrous: I ran out of yarn and then after I picked a substitute yarn to make a contrast top with I still bound off too soon, and it looks like a condom on BOTH of us, as Wax predicted when I handed it to her; and it isn't long enough to fold over, so it wouldn't be warm enough anyway.
So of course, completely logically...
...now I'm trying to make a Fair Isle hat! I'm SUPER excited about that. Using this free traditional tam pattern, Katie's Kep by Wilma Malcolmson from Shetland Wool Week, and a few miniskeins of plant-dyed handspun finnwool from the sheep and goat fair.
I've been meaning to get into Fair Isle knitting for years and a hat, being a small project, is the best way to start. There is very little guarantee that it will come out well, or fit either of us nicely if it does, but Wax didn't want me ordering any new yarn for hats when we have a bunch more somewhere that we haven't found and we have more yarn than will fit in the glass-fronted case. Learning Fair Isle, as a project, is exciting anyway, even if it doesn't work as a hat for me.
