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Mar. 9th, 2005 07:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickIt is about twenty (-6.67 C) outside, with snow and flurries. I think I need to make myself a yarn hat. Knitted, I mean. I think I want it to be wool, out of variegated sock yarn. I do not currently HAVE any variegated sock yarn in a color I might like a hat out of but I can by god buy some. I know it's March. I know hat season is fleeing rapidly before the procession of the equinox or whatever. Even so, it's twenty degrees outside and I'm in fucking hat mode.
I want a knitted woolen cap. I want it to be moderately pointy on top. I want it to have a small tassle on the moderately pointy top. We're not talking an amount of pointy or tassle that would suggest elf-at-the-north-pole, here. It'll be entirely tasteful. Also, I think I want it to have ear flaps. I know that I once thought ear flaps were lame. I was wrong about that. Ear flaps are trendy and warm. They are chic, hip, happenin' hat design elements, not even slightly lame, and my view on this is in no way influenced by the fact that I fucking hate having cold ears. Not at all.
This hat will probably make me look like I'm five. I still want one.
I cannot be the only person what wants a hat like this. A quick google or three later, it turns out that I am not the only person who wants a moderately pointy hat with a small tassle at the top and ear flaps. Apparently this is the hat worn by lots of people in the Andes mountains. There is a popup ad, but also there is a free(!) knitting pattern and pictures demonstrating the sort of hat I want to have. I want the pointier white one, with less tassle than the llama one. Like that. Possibly also with strings for the ears. I can make strings for the ears. I have the power. (Full disclosure: I've never done i-cord before.) I might also like pointy ear things instead of rounded ones, but I can do that on my own. This is mostly right. (I am constitutionally unable to make anything according to the actual pattern. It's just one of those things. I cook the same way. Recipes say to do whatever and I read them and then I go do what I want anyway. All that stuff is more like guidelines...)
There's a similar hat at knitty.com. However, there's no way I am going to put dippy looking skiers on my fucking hat. No. Not happening. I admit that two-color work would make it pretty warm due to the floats being carried on the back side. I admit that learning how to do two-handed fair-isle would be a valuable skill. Even so, not doing it. One color good. Two colors bad.
I've sent off for acceptable yarn and a 16" circular needle in an appropriate size. Because I'm stupid, I didn't also order the OTHER circular needle I wanted at the same time to save on shipping. Probably I should plan these things more carefully. Anyway, when the hat project materializes (That's the very definition of knitting -- Materialize this yarn!) (I slay me.), there will be pictures and discussion and so forth. All is grist to the mill, so be prepared to to be bored about the hat thing here in the coming weeks.
I want a knitted woolen cap. I want it to be moderately pointy on top. I want it to have a small tassle on the moderately pointy top. We're not talking an amount of pointy or tassle that would suggest elf-at-the-north-pole, here. It'll be entirely tasteful. Also, I think I want it to have ear flaps. I know that I once thought ear flaps were lame. I was wrong about that. Ear flaps are trendy and warm. They are chic, hip, happenin' hat design elements, not even slightly lame, and my view on this is in no way influenced by the fact that I fucking hate having cold ears. Not at all.
This hat will probably make me look like I'm five. I still want one.
I cannot be the only person what wants a hat like this. A quick google or three later, it turns out that I am not the only person who wants a moderately pointy hat with a small tassle at the top and ear flaps. Apparently this is the hat worn by lots of people in the Andes mountains. There is a popup ad, but also there is a free(!) knitting pattern and pictures demonstrating the sort of hat I want to have. I want the pointier white one, with less tassle than the llama one. Like that. Possibly also with strings for the ears. I can make strings for the ears. I have the power. (Full disclosure: I've never done i-cord before.) I might also like pointy ear things instead of rounded ones, but I can do that on my own. This is mostly right. (I am constitutionally unable to make anything according to the actual pattern. It's just one of those things. I cook the same way. Recipes say to do whatever and I read them and then I go do what I want anyway. All that stuff is more like guidelines...)
There's a similar hat at knitty.com. However, there's no way I am going to put dippy looking skiers on my fucking hat. No. Not happening. I admit that two-color work would make it pretty warm due to the floats being carried on the back side. I admit that learning how to do two-handed fair-isle would be a valuable skill. Even so, not doing it. One color good. Two colors bad.
I've sent off for acceptable yarn and a 16" circular needle in an appropriate size. Because I'm stupid, I didn't also order the OTHER circular needle I wanted at the same time to save on shipping. Probably I should plan these things more carefully. Anyway, when the hat project materializes (That's the very definition of knitting -- Materialize this yarn!) (I slay me.), there will be pictures and discussion and so forth. All is grist to the mill, so be prepared to to be bored about the hat thing here in the coming weeks.
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Date: 2005-03-09 11:17 pm (UTC)You only have 13,000 years to knit that hat! Get to it! HUP HUP HUP!
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Date: 2005-03-10 01:30 am (UTC)I'd like to claim that I meant something along the lines of "the approach of the vernal equinox" (which is a little less than two weeks away) but I'm not sure what I meant. It was before coffee, after all.