Bear hat for my friend Luke: completed. He was delighted. It fit perfectly. It had better — it was the fourth or fifth time I’d knitted the damn thing. Knowing he liked it, I no longer hated him or the hat.
Not pictured: the Knucks I knitted for a friend. No lettering, just a band of skulls and crossbones running around each hand. My friend hounded me for them for ages, then once he got them, begged that I drop the temperature in Los Angeles so his hands wouldn’t get sweaty as he wore them everywhere. In August. Rico is a lunatic. Fortunately, 1. that’s why we like him and 2. he’s in Europe for a bit, exclusively on bits of the continent where gloves will be a very welcome thing now it’s fall.
Now my projects are down to various knitted projects I’m inventing, adapting and refashioning that will probably take months before they’re done, and that damned pink crocheted purse that only needs blocking, assembling, finishing, lining, and abandoning to its new owner’s clutches.
September 20, 2006 at 2:14 pm |
You are a very generous friend. That bear hat is awesome. Is that your pattern?
Best,
firefly
September 21, 2006 at 3:54 am |
Yeah, it’s sorta my pattern — once I learned how to make a top-down hat, I never looked at a pattern again. It’s a basic beanie with some freeform ears attached.
I’m a big fan of making hats from the top down because I can try them on as I go to sort out the length and I don’t need to swatch — I just figure out the gauge after I’ve knitted 10 or 20 rounds and that tells me when to stop decreasing. The less I have to read, memorize or refer to, the better, in my world.