I am exceedingly happy with my second attempt at the Center Square Hat as the soon-to-be discontinued Maratona (sob,sob) shows off the pattern much better than that stodgy ol' tweedy Rowan. What was I thinking? Please. People, this is a seriously fast knit. If any of you are flipping your Holiday knitting wig right now I highly recommend this pattern. Use any dk or worsted and hold two stands together using an 11 and you'll be done, as they say in Georgia, in a New York minute. This particular model is going to my best friend from high school who is always thoughtfully sending me and the tiddly winks presents that arrive in time and demonstrate a lot of thought on her part. So I'm hoping that the "joy of a hand knit gift" (yes, it's a treacly sentiment) will be all hers when she opens the box.
Yesterday our church knitting group met again and worked on the Caps for the Capital project. So far we've done about 25 hats. It's been a lot of fun seeing the different hats that people are coming up with, from complicated fair isle numbers to very basic garter stitch affairs. One pleasing aspect to the project has been that knitters of any ability and level can participate. We'll send them out next week and hope to boost the total number of hats from Pennsylvania on the Save the Children interactive map.
Since I am on a bit of a roll with the whole Maratona hat thing, I decided to quickly knit up a hat for my father in law. I cast it on last night and finished it today while my class was taking their final exam. It occurred to my how unfair it was that while they were racking their brains trying to write cogent essays about the French New Wave, I was blithely stitching away on knitting autopilot. Then I remembered that I would be the one reading those essays later that day...and night...and the following day and night...and suddenly I didn't feel quite so bad!
4 comments:
I love the hat tree!! Caps for the Capital sounds like a great project. Good on you for getting your church knitting group working on it!
What a great concept for a yarn store as well. Put up a tree, supply some easy free patterns, have their customers cover it with hats and donate the results to the local womens shelter.
I am seriously thinking about attempting the center square hat. I have some cream and cadet blue yarn that would look great. It's Aran weight but would probably work if I went down a needle size.
Good luck with the grading. It's great that you got to get some knitting done. The hats look wonderful, and I'm sure your best friend and everyone else will love them. You're such an awesome holiday knitter!
Good luck with the grading. It's great that you got to get some knitting done. The hats look wonderful, and I'm sure your best friend and everyone else will love them. You're such an awesome holiday knitter!
I am in love with this hat in the blue and green colors!!! I just love this!!
Have fun in NYC, I envy you getting to go there:) My husband won't go until it's warm enough to walk around. Phooey. Just got back from King of Prussia Mall and it was a good thing I went there early this morning because it started getting crazy packed their.
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