Last winter after I had finished my first two complete projects, a scarf for my mom and a scarf for my friend Courtney, I decided I should make winter hats for the guys. I thought it was lucky that I found an easy pattern in Better Homes and Gardens Knit It! for a "Cool" men's hat. I even bought my first addi-turbo circulars for this pattern. But after a year of anticipation the results were less than spectacular.
DISCLAIMER: When I started this hat last week I was sick.
BUT, that does not excuse this bad pattern or yarn.
I cast on all my stitches and was not sure what end to start knitting on. I've only knit in the round once before. So I knit a row or two and realized the bottom was uneven and I had picked the wrong end. I cast on again and this time was confused about the rib. The bottom of the hat is a k1,p1 rib but since it was in the round and I was sick, I wasn't sure what to knit and what to purl. After 4 rows, I had half rib and half seed stitch. So I cast on for a third time. Yes, it was a charm! The hat was so easy to knit and it took me less than a week! I didn't even do any knitting this weekend and I still finished tonight. I had my misgivings about this hat because I thought the guys in the pictures looked like dorks. But I thought surely my DH would make this hat look hot! But you see the result.
I frogged about a forth of the hat and am going to try again. I think if I take out some rows it might look normal. To my surprise, my husband is a yarn snob and did not like the Lion Brand Wool-Ease that he had suggested I use because of the price. Hurray! We are going to the LYS on Saturday and I'm going to get better yarn and try the pattern that Amy used for her DH. The project was not a total waste...and I improved my knitting skills too :)
4 comments:
Ooooh- the kind of project one dreads. You can't get it "right," so you frog and try again (and again, and again), and still don't like the result! (Been there, done that!) It's a nice picture, though (the green in the hat looks good w/ your DH's eyes! and it WILL keep his head warm in a snow storm!) Have fun at the yarn store (they get more patient with us once they get inspired to pet the yarn, too!)
Love your blog, Sarah! So glad to read what you're up to!
Yea Sarah!!! I think your hubby looks adorable.
I hope you enjoy blogging like you do knitting. I know I do.
Amy
sarah, your awesome! so happy you got a blog!!!!! i like the hat when you were knitting it at group last thursday...i even went abought myself some more wool ease to make a stripped hat like that for chris....sorry you had such an awful time with it... hope i have better luck
Congratulations on the blog! And I'm so glad you have a yarn snob husband, too. Makes for much better knitting. :)
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