Hunting Hat (Now with Scarf!)
Finished
December 5, 2011
December 8, 2011

Hunting Hat (Now with Scarf!)

Project info
Mark’s Butch, Macho Roll-Brim Seaman’s Watch Cap by Mark Thrailkill
Knitting
HatBeanie, Toque
Dad
Stretchy!
Needles & yarn
US 8 - 5.0 mm
426 yards
Brown Sheep Shepherd's Shades
none left in stash
1.3 skeins = 170.3 yards (155.7 meters), 130 grams
Orange
The Knitting Nook in Watauga, Texas
July 14, 2011
Fiesta Yarns (North America) Boomerang
32 yards in stash
0.8 skeins = 256.0 yards (234.1 meters), 113 grams
Green
JenningStreet Yarns in Fort Worth, Texas
December 10, 2011
Notes

05 Dec
A nice, easy knit to work on while watching movies. Going to give it a nice washing, let it dry, then call it done!

Did about 8 or 9 rounds extra before starting the decreases, using halfyarn's adaptation. Probably would have been fine with about 5 more rounds before decreasing to give it a larger fold over. But I think this works great.

Hat is 80g, approx. 105 yards.

09 Dec
Hat is all done but a scarf has been requested. Eep. I don’t have enough yarn! Must improvise!

10 Dec
Picked up some camo-colored superfine merino (so neck safe!) and will see how that goes.

CO 40 in CC
2/2 Rib
in Orange for 20 rows
in Camo for 10 rows
in Orange for 15 rows
in Camo until scarf measures 8” shy of desired total length
in Orange for 15 rows
in Camo for 10 rows
in Orange for 20 rows
BO.

Camo knits up to approx. 2.67 grams/inch in the 2/2 ribbing.

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by Brown Sheep
Super Bulky
100% Wool
131 yards / 100 grams

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by Fiesta Yarns (North America)
Aran
100% Merino
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  • Originally queued: December 5, 2011
  • Project created: December 5, 2011
  • Finished: December 19, 2011
  • Updated: March 29, 2013
  • Progress updates: 2 updates