Knitting Again!

Yes, I've picked up my much missed needles again! For this project, I am designing and knitting a hat for my daughter. The yarn is handspun by me alpaca yarn. The original idea was to spin and knit a blanket for her, but then I got a bunch of blankets at a shower (some really nice handmade ones too). I started spinning it before she was born but am just now getting to knitting it. The idea has morphed into a hat, knit from the top down. I like that for the same reason I like toe up socks, you can try it on as you go. I'm thinking an I-cord edge will finish this hat off nicely. I hope I can find time to finish it before it gets cold!

New Hats and Scarves

I've been trying to ramp things up for the holidays, and part of that is creating more things to list in my shop. I've been wanting to list some things that will be easy to make more of when they sell. I decided on stretchy hats that fit a variety of head sizes, so no messing with the stitch count and matching scarves.

I'm still knitting the gray scarf if you're wondering why its not in the picture.

Finished Hat

Ta Da! What do you think? It's my newest hat! I've talked about it a lot already and shown pictures of it in progress and now, its complete!

Hand Spun Knit Hat

I've had this yarn (the light green one on the left in the first picture) that I spun from this hand dyed falkland wool top for a while now. It's been waiting for just the right knitting project. I knew I wanted to pair it with another yarn, but it took me a while to decide on some of my hand spun Bluefaced Leicester. The idea is that the solid color yarn will help to better highlight the subtle color changes in the hand dyed yarn.
Here is the hat I'm working on. I'm liking the pattern, which is here. I've been wanting to make one of those tams for a while too, plus its time to knit a hat for myself, because I want a new hat.
The really crazy part is that I knit most of that in one day. I had cast on the day before and knit a few rows. It was a day spent at various airports waiting for our flights and on the flights, but still, that much in one day is a lot of knitting! I wonder how long it will take me to do the rest...

Current Project

If you've seen me on Ravelry you may have noticed that I'm working on a hat. I wanted to make my boyfriend a really nice and warm hat. He picked out everything. He even went to a fiber festival with me and picked out some alpaca roving to make the hat with. I spun the yarn a couple months ago, and now that its getting cold, I'm knitting the hat. I'm knitting this pattern that he picked out: A Hat Fit For A Boyfriend.


Its a small project so I knitted one with yarn I had around here. I think the recommended needle size is a bit big. I used a size 7 needle for the first hat, and a size 4 needle for the hat with my handspun yarn.

Mom's Hat

I've been working on this one since oh, about December. It was slow going for a while, but what really got me motivated to finish the hat was.... wanting to use the needles for another project. Is that bad? I have it finished in time for Mother's Day, which I know isn't the best time to be wearing an alpaca hat, but it matches her awesome mittens.

Some things I've made. :)

Aren't the pin cushions cute!?

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