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Wednesdays Are For Knitting: Santa Hat

May 4, 2022 By Carole

I have a finished hat to show you today! It’s the Santa Hat that my friend Sean designed. He had initially knit this for himself but when I asked him to write up the pattern and share it he willingly complied. Yay!

The pattern is free on Ravelry and the yarn is Rowan Kid Classic in the colors Feather and Cherry Red. It’s a well written pattern and easy to follow and should have been a fast knit. In fact, it was a pretty fast knit and it’s been done for weeks . . . all I had to do to finish it was attach the pom pom – I went with this fun faux fur variety instead of a traditional one made from yarn. I finally attached it yesterday (it took less than 5 minutes! why do we procrastinate these little details?!) and I am happy to share it with you today.

Here’s the modeled shot. I will be styling for this year’s Christmas Parade!

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Wednesdays Are For Knitting

April 27, 2022 By Carole

In keeping with my commitment to talking about knitting every Wednesday, I present this:

Truer words may never have been spoken.

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Wednesdays Are For Knitting

April 13, 2022 By Carole

I broke one of my knitting rules yesterday. Yes. I said knitting rules. And one of my rules is that I only allow myself to have one mindless project going at a time. It used to always be a sock but, while my love for sock knitting has never wavered, my love for actually wearing hand knit socks has . . . decreased . . . in recent years. I do have a pair of socks on the needles, though, and the 2nd one is this.close to being finished. As in, there’s less than an inch of ribbing to go on this toe up baby. It does still need an after thought heel but that’s not mindless and I needed some mindless knitting.

Why?

Because last night was town meeting in the town where I work. And, while I needed to be there to answer any questions related to the library budget, the rest of my time was spent observing. As knitters, we know that observing and knitting go hand in hand. You know what makes for perfectly mindless and delightfully entertaining mindless knitting?

A Musselburgh Hat.

I started it at home yesterday morning to get past the fiddly cast on.

It was a loooooong meeting . . . and this is how far I got last night.

Town Meeting and Knitting. Just call me Madame Defarge.

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Wednesdays Are For Knitting

March 23, 2022 By Carole

One of the things I vowed to do recently was to be consistent with blog posts and to plan them a week in advance as much as possible. This has mostly been working well for me and I’m not left in the early morning trying to figure out what I want to say.

Except, of course, that Wednesdays Are For Knitting . . . and there really hasn’t been much knitting going on at all.

I mostly blame Fred and George. While I can knit on the sweater while they are sleeping, I have to keep it where they can’t find it at all other times, which is currently the mudroom. That one little detail has proven to be a huge barrier when it comes to actually working on it.

The same can be said of the socks I have going. They have to be kept away from my little furry friends except when I am working on them and, while they are close by, I just haven’t been reaching for them. Instead, when it’s time for television, I tend to play a mindless game on my phone while watching our shows. It’s a bad habit and I need to break it and that’s why I’m confessing it to you.

So. Brighten my day by telling me what YOU are knitting these days!

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Wednesdays Are For Knitting

March 9, 2022 By Carole

I wish I had an exciting knitting update for you but things are pretty much the same on that front.

There is progress . . . but it’s not exciting progress. The leg of the second toe up sock is longer. The length of the Daytripper Cardigan is longer. But neither is longer by much and I blame Tik Tok and reading and, quite frankly, Fred and George.

It’s fairly easy to knit on the sock while they are awake as they don’t seem to pay much mind to that. But the sweater? Those Icelandic wool fumes are irresistible to them and I can only work on it when they are (soundly) asleep. I’ll finish it one of these days.

In the meantime, I am enjoying the process.

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