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October 07, 2003
Hat City
Well, since my last entry I have completed another adult hat and one newborn hat. Unfortunately, I forgot to get a picture of the two adult hats before I gave them away but they turned out pretty well. Word of warning on using DK weight yarn though, it turns out very stretchy. The chunky, fake mohair yarn that was used in Jake's sweater was ideal.
The newborn hat was made to match the sweater for my friend Jamie's baby. It won't be here until December so Elmo had to model the set. I had 2/3's of a ball of Sirdar Silky left and got a wild hair to do a hat. It was a heartpounding race to the finish to see if it was enough. I bound off with a mere ten inches left. It doesn't get anymore victorious than that folks. I used the same seed stitch from the sweater and it was a constant battle to keep the holes aligned. I actually had this problem in the sweater but was successful for the most part. The back of the hat has one small section that is all hosed up (to me anyway, nonknitters will probably not notice). I swear I am knitting dyslexic. Anyway, as you can see, Elmo is modeling it for me. He is newborn size but unfortunately, his eyeballs are not optimally placed for hat modeling hahahahaha. We love you anyway "Melmo".
I am starting Eli's sweater now but am back to the drawing board for a pattern. I don't like the one I picked. I wanted a topdown, seamless raglan like the one I used for Seth and Jake. I actually had to alter that pattern to size it up and it was okay. I didn't want to take a chance at resizing it THAT much for Eli. I am going to try out this pattern. I bought that Sweater Wizard CD for creating sweaters but it doesn't seem to allow for one piece sweaters which really sucks considering how much I paid for the thing. I think I will go nicely suggest that they add that as an update. Speaking of this CD...nice program. Math is not my strong suit so I really appreciate just plugging in numbers. But the instructions are a pain in the patoot. I think I will alter the instructions to make them more sensible - it was really only the proportions that I was interested in anyway. And also, it seems to me, that for nearly $90 they should combine the Sweater Wizard and the one that makes charts. Really now. Those two programs in a mainstream computer program should only cost about $30 apiece. I think they are priced so high simply because they are not being mass marketed. Hmmm, maybe I will sugest that too.
Posted by DebC at October 7, 2003 10:49 AM