My First Hat

Finally the pictures of the hat are in and i’ve delivered it to my cousin who was extremely pleased to get it.

Here is a picture of the hat

and a close-up of the pattern

I knit the hat in 2 halves as everytime i tried to knit in using my 3.25mm circular needles it always got tangled up. For the patterns i created a 3 stitch wide diamond shape alternating knit and purl stitches just to give the solid colour some texture.

Her brother’s scarf is sitting in my knitting pile untouched since they are off to HK where the temperature is much milder and i am bored of the scarf. I’m attempting to knit lace and i will keep everyone updated on my progress!

Update on scarves

Just a quick update today since i do not have any pictures.

• Girl Cousin: I blogged about her completed scarf in my last post and this weekend i managed to finish off her hat as well. It was a really simple design which i will put up once i have the pictures as well.
• Boy Cousin: Conundrum is over! He helped me frog his scarf and this morning i cast on 15 stitches in each colour and will knit each panel independently until i reach the desired length. I will have to figure out how to seam it invisibly though since we are talking 2 contrasting colours.

Till i have pictures this is the knit-aholic signing out and wishing everyone happy, healthy, and stress-free knitting days (a Pat Sajak ‘Wheel of Fortune” moment overcame me and i could not resist the sign-off) ;-p

Scarves Galore!

Ok an update on the scarves. The one for my girl cousin is done in all its pink glory.

I was given 3 balls of pink yarn in different shades. I liked the combination of these 2 colours for the scarf and since she’s only 6 i got away with it being a skinny scarf and not too, too long. For this scarf i used 3.25mm circular needles and cast on 30 stitches for the pattern which has bobbles and a cable. I shortened the repeats of the patterns so that the cable and bobbles matched up perfectly which made my life alot easier

This is a close-up of the pattern. Unfortunately my picture isn’t too clear but you can make out the bobbles and cables. This was the first time i attempted bobbles and i was a little intimidated at first but it was pretty fun to knit after the first few repeats. I got the pattern for this scarf from Drops designs as well (thank heavens for that wonderful resource of amazing and FREE patterns). Now i’ve cast on for a matching hat and again its something i’m knitting for the first time.

The scarf for my boy cousin is still stuck at 75% and i’m contemplating frogging it.

 

I used the 3.25mm circular needles for this scarf as well but i’ve cast on 60 stitches and its looking too wide now. I’ve made a bit of a mess at the ’seams’ of the 2 colours and i’m left with a rather unattractive joint between the different panels.

My camera has been acting up and so the colour of the scarf is accurately reflected in the first picture and not this rather dull-yellowed tones. Here you can see a close-up of the pretty checker-board design and my UGLY joints. I’m thinking to frog and recast 45 stitches with 15 stitches for each colour. That way it won’t be too skinny but i can avoid the too wide phenomenon i have going here. I’m also contemplating knitting each colour panel individually and sewing the seams together the same as for normal sweaters.

Will have to ponder on frogging this one but not for too long as December looms and i have only one scarf completed. Yikes!