11-18-2007

Since I had some yarn left over from the Harvey Kimono, I thought I’d see if there was enough to make a baby hat. I’m using this cute little Spiral Rib hat pattern. First I cast on with 88 stitches, but it seemed huge. Then I tried again with 68, but it was clearly going to be much too small. I decided I probably wasn’t too far off the first time, so I started again with 84, and I think it will be fine. I wanted it to be wearable with the kimono, which I made in 3-month size, but it would be nice if could be worn earlier, too. That’s why I thought a stretchy rib pattern would be great since it would fit a variety of sizes.

But of course, I won’t have enough yarn to finish. So tomorrow I’ll be off to buy another skein of Sublime. Then I’ll have a bunch left over again, and I’ll have to try making some mittens or booties, which I won’t have enough yarn for, so I’ll have to buy another skein… Hmmmm. Sort of like chips and salsa.

11-19-2007

The baby hat is done! I’m not sure what size baby it will fit, of course. It might work for a newborn if the ribbing is folded up around the bottom. Otherwise, it’s pretty stretchy and will probably work for next winter too.

Pattern: Frog Monkey’s Spiral Rib Hat

Yarn: Sublime Extra Fine Merino Wool DK, color 0007, 1 ball

Needles: US6 DPNs

Comments: My spiral went the opposite way of the one shown in the pattern. I’m not sure whether that was me or the pattern – I started it several times with a different number of stitches, and I probably wasn’t looking at the pattern instructions by the time I got to the last cast-on. I noticed that the spiral was going the other way, but didn’t really think it would matter – but when I got to the decreases at the top, I had to reverse them so that they’d spiral in the same direction as the rest of the hat. (Instead of doing “PSSO, then knit x stitches”, I did “knit x stitches and then K2tog”.)

Anyway, it’s a cute little hat and went pretty quickly. And here it is with the kimono, which finally has buttons!