Jennyarn

I am loving Ravelry. Except I have a lot of knitting to do. I joined a gift-a-long group to help set goals. I set some goals. Now I have two hats and a scarf to knit in two days time! Yeah so I’m not very good with goals, at least not in a linear or methodical way. I have been knitting, but not what was on my list!

At least I can cross one thing off that silly list, this scarf called Huckleberry Ascot.
This might be a good way to learn about short rows because no integration of wrapped
stitches is needed.

Huckleberry Ascot in Rowan Kid Classic

It’s been a long time since I’ve knit in garter stitch on straight needles. No purling was nice, but it wasn’t as easy as I’d reckoned. There’s always a bumpy stitch to contend with! How I prefer knitting in stockinette stitch on circulars; it’s much friendlier and easier on the hands too. Garter stitch does not grow very quickly. It seems to really eat up yarn too. 153 yards didn’t allow for much mileage and I ran out of the cream colored yarn. I didn’t get discombobulated over bobbles. I had the the same yarn in another color so I simply used that for the bobbly bits.

Why on earth did I spend hours knitting a measly short scarf? Oh yeah, I forgot. It’s because I like knitting!

The Koolhaas hat is said to be inspired by the work of Rem Koolhaas,
a Dutch architect. This is a hat I had to try.

Does Charlie like the hat?

This hat involves all that reordering of stitches known as cabling.
There is so much of that cabling business going on in this hat that
it’s a good candidate for cabling without a cable needle. Brilliant!

Madeleine oversees my progress.

Or so. I spent more time trying to learn how to do this crafty finagling
than I did knitting! I started off with the clearest understanding of
no-cable-needle cabling to begin with.

Gradually, any understanding unraveled as I read savvy descriptions,
I looked at diagrams and I watched videos. The explanations other
knitters found most valuable I found most confusing. I wondered if
I was a good candidate for a brain transplant. I felt doomed. Then
I remembered I could still knit the confounded hat. Hey, I could just
use a cable needle! Brilliant.

All that cabling calls for a good nap.

You know how people dye yarn using Kool-aid? Maybe that would make
for a nice Koolhaas hat. I didn’t think to try that. But I was good and used
some yarn on stash, Cascade 220.