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Unravelled Wednesday - The one with the beginning of Leon's Winter Set 2020

Every year I knit Leon a winter set – hat, mitts, scarf, and for the last two years socks, with the same motif. I’ve been doing this since the first year we met, so it’s quite the tradition. I used to find patterns, but now I tend to take a stitch pattern, and apply it to the items. I think of it as plug and play designing.  (see 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 ) for previous sets). This year I’m basing the set on a Cookie A sock pattern – Arrow.


I’m starting with the hat, because this is the one thing that makes me nervous – hat decreases. I find them hard to conceptualise. On a plain hat it’s easy, I just use Jared Flood’s Turn-a-Square, or the Yarn Harlot’s formulas. This one has patterning. I have some ideas about the decreases, so check back in later in the week if you want to see be succeed … or fail and try, try again.

In reading, I just abandoned Starship's Mage  at 13 %. I’m actually really proud of myself, normally I battle on once I have started something, even when I am not enjoying it. It was Kindle Unlimited, which helps, since it’s essentially free. Maybe I should start using the library again.
 
Instead I started reading The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Tara Jenkins Reid. I’m not very far through it, but is grabbed me from the very beginning, so that’s a good start.
 

I’m linking up with Kat from As Kat Knits for Unravelled Wednesday. 
 

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  1. You are brave to try that pattern on a hat. Best of luck!

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