Skip to main content

And a hat...

I bought the pattern for the Beeswax Hat during the Indie-designer-Gift-a-Along, and then didn't actually cast it on until two weeks after the GAL finished! I 
I cast on and knit the first repeat according to the pattern ... or at least  I thought according the the pattern as I didn't really read it. it's one by one cables, charted, no worries. When I got to the end of the first repeat I took a good look, and realised my right twists and left twists looked very different from each other, to the point where it was distorting the fabric.
Then I reviewed the pattern and it turns out that I was doing the left twists wrong. I mean, the designer has a tutorial explaining how to do it right. The reason I'm glad I made this mistake now, on this little hat is that I spent this morning "designing" Leon's winter set, which is based around an arrow stitch made of one by one cables. This way I learnt the right way to do them, and only had to rip back 12 rounds, instead of having to agonise over Leon's winter set, which ,if you think about it, I look at a lot more than in look at my own hats.

 Although I'm not sure they are that much neater, even done correctly!






 Other than following the pattern, I actually took out 12 stitches, and it's still not small. I like it though, most of the hats I've knit for myself recently have been quite slouchy, so it's nice ti have a proper beanie. 
Before blocking

 I blocked it hard, and am very happy with how the hat relaxed, and the cables settled. 
Labels:

Comments

  1. Jeannie Gray Knits22 January, 2020

    Looks great! I'm always amazed at how much better designs work out when I actually follow the directions. :)

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Unravelled wednesday and WAYRN - the one where I prepare

We are heading off for some camping and hiking and general R&R on Friday, so I'm currently in planning and preparing mode. Of course that mainly means deciding what to knit - I'm going to make the Old Romance cardigan by Joji Locatelli. The yarn is wound and I'm ready to go. I completed Leon's Winter Set (2023) just in time, and it's currently blocking. I'm reading Georgette Hayer's Fredrica , which I am enjoying very much. Regency romance is so sweet and, unlike current romance offerings, I know it won't suddenly tumble into gynaecological territory!  For unexplained reasons, NetGalley is offering some Georgette Heyer books at the moment - (maybe it's re-release?) and I'm taking this opportunity to read a few more of them And that's my week in knitting and reading.  To read my all my book reviews, and to see everything I knit, you can find me on Ravelry as  Sharondoublekni t and on GoodReads as  Sharondblk .  I'm joining in with Kat ...
2 comments
Read more

Yarnalong - the one with the final bit of transport

Remember how I took every form of transport known to man a fortnight ago? Well, I was missing just one thing, suburban trains. But today I got to remedy that, knitting my way to Dandenong for work. Yay? My Char jumper has been knitting up ridiculously fast. It's easy, pleasant and a well written pattern. I'm reading Rachael Herron's latest book The Ones Who Matter Most . It's a good read so far, family centered fiction, easy to read but still emotionally challenging. I'm listening to Evelyn Waugh's Men At Arms . I'm enjoying it, I didn't really know what to expect, but some of it reminds me of Catch 22, in that it catalogues the absurdities of war and bureaucracy. The narrator has the perfect upper crust English accent and I'm very pleased it's the first of a trilogy.   And that's another week of reading, knitting and catching trains everywhere for me. Do pop along to Ginny's blog to see what she and the rest of the yarnalong ...
3 comments
Read more

Why Andrea Mowry, why? (A rant and a rather nice finished object)

As mentioned, prior to our hiking trip I suddenly, and rather randomly, decided to knit  Andrea Morwy's Traveler Shell . It's basically an open fronted rectangle in a knit purl pattern. The pattern is FOURTEEN pages long. Why is the pattern 14 pages long? Because, instead of explaining the ten row repeat and then putting the shaping on top of that (e.g. decrease while continuing to knit in pattern), she writes out the entire ten row knit purl sequence every time something changes. Additionally, most of the time she starts with even number being the right side and wrong numbers being the right side,which is just plain odd. It's confusing and it's like she wants to keep you looking at the pattern for every row, rathe than following the very intuitive stitch pattern, which I had memorised after one repeat.  The instructions for the band just say 'pick up x number of stitches'. No ratios, no acjnowledgement that different bits of the band have different ratios. Afte...
1 comment
Read more