11/22/2006: "Yes! I still knit!"

When I'm not tied up with tearing out a kitchen, keeping the cats from waltzing through the sticky stuff that the floor guys are using to lay the Amtico in the family room, navigating my increasingly stuffed living room (there are 4 rooms of ~~crap~~ valuable belongings stacked in there at the moment) or figuring out what to do about dinner when there is no stove, no microwave and no flat surface to prepare or eat upon... I knit!

Never let it be said that I am a layabout (you can think it, but never let it be said).

I saw this hat at K-2 Knits in Tracy a while back and the lady who runs the store promised she'd email me the pattern when she wrote it up. Knitting people are so great - when they say they'll email you a pattern, they actually do it. I love knitting people! It took about a day and half and a skein and a half of Noro Kureyon to get this:

It's knit flat (obviously) and the slanting rib pattern is very easy to do. This was some lovely TV watching knitting... back in the days when our TV was plugged in. Oh how I long for those halcyon days...

Anyway.

Once you get the flat piece knit and bound off, you line up the cast on and bound off edges and sew them together, thusly:

Can you see the sewn rib? It's there, I promise. I did my best finishing job ever on this hat. I hate finishing since I'm a knitter, not a sewer, but I decided to practice my invisible seaming and it was worth it.

Once the seam was sewn, I ran a loop of yarn around the top and pulled it together. This was actually a bit tricky, as Kureyon is a single and tends to break fairly easily if pulled too tightly. In future I might use a piece of leftover acrylic yarn to do the job, as it's a lot stronger. I don't think it would show. Last, but not least, I flipped the brim:

Cute, no? It's a flapper hat! All I need is a bob and a drop waisted, heavily beaded, psychadelically colored dress (and a much flatter chest) and I'm set!

For now, I leave you with this haunting image, and a question to ponder: which is creepier, my freaked out but vacant expression or my Giant Sausage Fingers From Hell?

Have a great Thanksgiving all! Tune in next week for more Tales of the Kitchen!

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on Tuesday, November 28th, Cindy said

I love your hat. Is the pattern available from K-2 Knits? It looks warm. The remodeling. The worst part was when they came and took out the oxygen ;)

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