A very happy use of my leftover Noro yarn! Love this little hat!
Free pattern: Rusc by Harlee Wentworth. I'd give this pattern my highest marks! Love the texture and way it worked up!
I did do a little modification to make it a pillbox shape. The notes are here on my Ravelry page. I'm thinking I may need to do another following the pattern all the way. Just a wonderful, thick feel!
So... I swatched... and, I swatched... and, I swatched.... I ended up having to go up two needle sizes to get gauge (I hope). Makes me seriously wonder what went awry with my Flat Rib Popover Vest! How could it have turned out so large, when my usual sin is on the tight side. Hmmm... still a mystery.
Then, coming to the realization I don't particularly like the feel of this yarn... I don't like doing k4tog... ever. And, it's a LONG way around. Not boding well for this project so far...
Frustrations with the swatch business... with the feel business... and with the FREQUENT use of k4tog over 340 stitches... All adding up to make the likelihood of this becoming a finished object a teensy bit at risk.
More to be revealed...
Like life... a little good and happy... a little hard and frustrating...
Wishing you all as much of the good and happy as you can get!
blessings ~ tanna
17 comments:
Cute hat! And here I thought k3tog was difficult. I don't think swatch is terribly important on a shawl except for the yarn amount but feel sure is. Shawls OMHO are supposed to be kind of cuddly..... and if you go through with all those stitches and don't really like it, will you wear it? Have a good day. (only with the current news from FLA, it's a very sad one.....)
Cute hat, especially on you. K4tog would be off my radar and only bring anxiety.
Love the hat. You look marvelous!
Love the hat! It's looks great on you, as all of the lovely things you make always do. Swatch and Gauge are four letter words in my house...just saying. I know you will get this, you always do. I also know that there is no reason to spend all your time making something you do not like to do...for me it's more about the process and not always about the finished project...rip that puppy out and save the yarn for something else...if, of course, you choose that route. Wishing you a day filled with much joy and many blessings sweet friend. :)
Here I thought you were really enjoying the knitting again--but K4--and the feel of the yarn--that is so important to me, so I understand. The little hat is so cute. At first I thought it was one of the baskets with a cover on it! LOL. Looks good on you!
So cute! I love that yarn and the hat shape!
Love the hat . . .
LOVE . . .
I would do another too . . .
(The feel of the yarn, pattern, ease, would be like reading a book . . .
Fifty pages in . . . If it hasn’t wrapped me in . . . I close the cover and go for another.)
Oh my gosh you look great in hats..
not me..not me not me..unless it's a big English wedding hat;)
I need height lol..It's adorb!
Gauge and sizes and k4 ..all a foreign language to me;)
Cute cute!
I'm not a fan of knit four together ever, so I can see your point! love your hat and your hat selfies :)
That hat is super cute (though I'm not a hat person as I've been told many times in the past :) Great use of your lovely leftover yarn. I know nothing about knitting but if you are not feeling the knit4tog then it must be tedious.
I think your hat is really cute and looks good on you! Or maybe it's that you're really cute and you make the hat look good. :)
Have a lovely weekend! xx Cheryl
Love you in that hat!
Cheers!
Linda :o)
I love that hat! So colorful and interesting to look at and I like the modifications you made to make it a pillbox shape. Lace is fun to knit and looks so pretty. I had so much fun learning different lace patterns last year, I have not used them in a project yet but they would make the bottom of a top or sweater look so pretty. I dislike k4tog as well, so many stitches to pull together!
beautiful hat..love those hearts also in another post.
I love the hat! And to see you so pretty and happy. Knitting will do that to a person :-)
Amalia
xo
Amazing and so cute.
Tanna, I hope you wear one of your creations, Thursday! You sure have a lot of choices! Look forward to seeing you. I hope it is not raining! So much today!
Aww!! the hat is cute!
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