It's a knock off of an Urban Outfitters hat Nina wanted. I reversed the cable crossings.
I'm calling it the Knock it Off Cabled Hat.
Yarn: 2 50g balls of Classic Elite Ariosa, 90% extra fine merino, 10% cashmere. A delightful, 1 ply yarn that is consistent in thickness. This color is Azalea.
Needles: Size 9 for the ribbing, size 10.5 for the body of the hat.
Gauge: 3.5sts/in in stockinette.
The photos are a little dark because I took them with no flash last night.
It was a nice mental challenge, because of the way the cables moved diagonally, so I had to figure out how to deal with the beginning of the round so as to avoid a jog. (Thank you, Cookie A for your Sock Innovations book that has a nice chapter on working with patterns like this.) Then I had to figure out how to deal with the decreases so they worked out nicely, maintaining the pattern as long as possible.
Nina seems to like it. Sophia seems to like it more. She's been wearing it all morning. I'm guessing she's getting away with that because Nina is still in bed.
In other news, it's NaNoWriMo time (National Novel Writing Month), and I'm participating this year, plunging myself back into the world of fiction writing with a new book that I don't know much about yet. 30 days and (I hope) 50K words from now, I'll know a lot more.
I've got some friends I'm doing this with, and we'll be cheering each other on, which is good, because I'm terrified. I'm hoping to post a little update every day, both with my writing progress and whatever knitting I may have done, too. So it's really BloKniWriMo (Blog Knitting Writing Month) for me.
Mmmph. I think I may have bitten off more than I can chew.
ETA: Nina just woke up. First thing she said was, "Get that hat off your head."
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2 comments:
Cute hat! Cute model, too. So do we get a pattern or is this to be a one-of?
I'll be making at least one more, as Sophia wants one, too. We'll see how far I get writing up the pattern so that it makes sense. I didn't have too much trouble adjusting the beginning of the rounds as I knit, but I had a terrible time understanding how to plan for it!
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