Project completed

It's a Hat!
 

A GIANT hat. (aka Adult Large)

 

I am very pleased that this is completed (minus a few ends that still needed to be weaved in. The yarn is Lion Brand Wool-Ease. I used size 6 needles. gauge= 6 st/in. After trying the toe-up sock, I wondered about making a hat from the top down. I found a couple of patterns but didn't really want to use them as anything more than a guide so I started my hat, making it up as I went along. It did have a ribbed edge, but I messed up the bind off and couldn't figure out how to put it back on the needles so now it has a rolled edge. I did the Elizabeth Zimmerman's sewn cast off that I've seen a few places on line and I really like it. I almost didn't do it 'cause I don't like to sew.

So, thankfully, I can move on to the next project.

Stay cool!

Surprise! Fiber content ahead...

Sorry for being so quiet. RL has a way of just zapping the energy out of you. But I have been knitting... just wasn't in the mood to blog about it ... so... onto the fiber chatter.

It's amazing what happens when people find out you knit. They give you yarn! It's happened twice this year. A lady at work had a skein in her desk and when she was cleaning out a drawer, she offered it to me.

And more recently, an online friend I've known for several years sent me an email offering me some that she had. I was expect just a few skeins, but look what she sent me!!!!



Twelve skeins of lovely yarn!! and it's soft too!

And the next day I received some other yarn I'd ordered for a crochet project - HC1 cotton yarn from the UK.



I currently finishing up a project that I will post when completed then I have to decide what to do next. There's a lady at work who is having a baby so I'd like to attempt to make baby socks (I'm not a big fan of booties). I think I've already found a pattern (Just Your Basic Baby Sock). It'll be good practice before I go back to trying that adult sock again.

ttfn!

We interrupt this knitting blog to bring you this

RL is not giving me a break lately so my blogging has been more sparce than usual. Hopefully you'll enjoy this video of one of my favorite comedians, Jeff Dunham.