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which_chickI have not forgotten about the HoHI socks. It's just getting quite cold and shitty here and I promised my cousin Heather a hat for her sprout, who, because she is wee, can be forced to wear silly hats by the simple expedient of tying them to her head. Yay for the maltreatment of babies!
The baby hat is in a lovely, warm, bright, machine-washable yarn that's suitably small-gauge for a baby hat. (Hint: Someone bought too much yarn when she was making knee high socks in inadvisable shades of purple.)
This time I didn't pretend to have a pattern. Sometimes I have a pattern so that I can pointedly ignore it later, but this was not one of those times. This time, I started without a pattern. I started with a user-specified design feature.
The hat must have ear flaps with strings on 'em so that the hat can be tied upon the baby.
The rest of the hat design happened as I went along.
First off, the hat is four square, like the llama hat, for two simple reasons. First, I know how to do that kind of hat, having done one before. Second, I have five DPNs of the proper size. A four-sided object means I have one free working needle without having to buy more DPNs. So. Basic shape of hat decided. Also, foursquare hat means that I can happily put the ear flaps centered on two opposing increase lines and they'll match each other. Having things match and be even is very gratifying for me.
Secondly, the hat has curly tassle things at the top that will (a) look dippy and (b) stay curly all the time and (c) be four in number to match the four sides of the hat. As a concession to people who are not quite as obsessive as I am, the curly tassle things are not all the same length. Since I could not figure out how to make suitable curly tassle things using knitting, I cheated. I crocheted the damn things. (I did not have directions to do that, either. I just sort of figured that a great way to make something curl was to make one side of it longer than the other side... and I proceeded to do so. It worked swimmingly.) Want to make curly tassle things of your own? Take an appropriate size crochet hook for the size yarn you are using. Chain about as long as you want the curly tassle thing to be. Turn work, skip one chain stitch and then put 2 DC in each chain stitch after that until you run out of chain stitches. Thread end of yarn through working loop and pull tight. Voila! Curly tassle thing.
I'm at the point where the hat needs things like some-kind-of-brim-treatment (so that it doesn't roll) and the starting of the ear flaps and so forth. So, y'know, I'm off to nurture my inner creative whatsis.
The baby hat is in a lovely, warm, bright, machine-washable yarn that's suitably small-gauge for a baby hat. (Hint: Someone bought too much yarn when she was making knee high socks in inadvisable shades of purple.)
This time I didn't pretend to have a pattern. Sometimes I have a pattern so that I can pointedly ignore it later, but this was not one of those times. This time, I started without a pattern. I started with a user-specified design feature.
The hat must have ear flaps with strings on 'em so that the hat can be tied upon the baby.
The rest of the hat design happened as I went along.
First off, the hat is four square, like the llama hat, for two simple reasons. First, I know how to do that kind of hat, having done one before. Second, I have five DPNs of the proper size. A four-sided object means I have one free working needle without having to buy more DPNs. So. Basic shape of hat decided. Also, foursquare hat means that I can happily put the ear flaps centered on two opposing increase lines and they'll match each other. Having things match and be even is very gratifying for me.
Secondly, the hat has curly tassle things at the top that will (a) look dippy and (b) stay curly all the time and (c) be four in number to match the four sides of the hat. As a concession to people who are not quite as obsessive as I am, the curly tassle things are not all the same length. Since I could not figure out how to make suitable curly tassle things using knitting, I cheated. I crocheted the damn things. (I did not have directions to do that, either. I just sort of figured that a great way to make something curl was to make one side of it longer than the other side... and I proceeded to do so. It worked swimmingly.) Want to make curly tassle things of your own? Take an appropriate size crochet hook for the size yarn you are using. Chain about as long as you want the curly tassle thing to be. Turn work, skip one chain stitch and then put 2 DC in each chain stitch after that until you run out of chain stitches. Thread end of yarn through working loop and pull tight. Voila! Curly tassle thing.
I'm at the point where the hat needs things like some-kind-of-brim-treatment (so that it doesn't roll) and the starting of the ear flaps and so forth. So, y'know, I'm off to nurture my inner creative whatsis.
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