Tag: hat

  • Floppy Hat Pattern

    I started this hat using a pattern but it wasn’t working out. So I took what was almost a frogging mess and changed it to make a floppy hat! I used worsted weight yarn and size 10 needles. Cast On: 116 stitches Knit for 2 -3 inches. 2ktog, 1 row. End results 58 stitches on…

  • This Was Not the Hat I’m Looking For

    For the first time in my short knitting career, I’ve changed up a pattern. I was following a pattern from Knitting Rules by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee when I notice the hat was for a man with the head of a basketball instead of a 10 year-old normal sized girl. The problem was the cast-on. She says…

  • Weaving Update: This and Me? We’re Like Friends Who Cut Each Other for S & G

    I’m nearly halfway done with my first weaving project. It is not what you’d call pretty yet. The bulky yarn snags and fluffs in irritating ways. But I can now do five triangles an hour. Then I have to sew them together. Making the pretty will require blocking. I’m not sure how well that will…