Tuesday, September 30

syncopated cap

George is on my case for a knitted hat of his own. Nevermind the 4,000,000,000 other machine knitted hats he owns - he's specifically requested a hat with snowflakes and a giant pompom.

I'm not that comfy with fair isle, having attempted it only once before. What if I hated it? So I decided that first I would knit a pattern that I have wanted to do for a long time, even if it wasn't quite what he requested.

Welcome syncopated hat from Interweave Knits Summer 2007. It's a Kate Gilbert pattern, and as a rule I like her stuff. I like the non-traditional take on this traditional sort of hat. Plus, I had a couple of sock yarns that I thought would work well in this contrasting pattern.

So I cast on. All went okay, despite my left hands unwillingness to do it's share of the work. We're slowly getting it to fall in line with expectations. Row by row it's starting to build. A little bit of a pattern reading problem resulted in me having to frog a couple rows, but it's working now. I took this on my trip to Oregon and enjoyed a little calm Sunday afternoon knitting in between all the hoopla with my brothers wedding.

5 comments:

(formerly) no-blog-rachel said...

Is this the same brother that you once quoted as saying 'once you lick the lollipop of mediocrity all you can do is suck'? You said that once to me at work and I liked it so much it's on the white board in my cube now! Along with a few other choice quotes.

Nice hat! I need to get working on color too - I keep avoiding it.

mandy said...

hah. funny, i remember that. it's my one and only brother.

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