I told you I finished my hat. Toboggan. Beanie. Whatever you call it in your region. But I didn’t show you.
Ta-Da!
There are two mistakes but you’d never know unless I told. OK, so one is that it’s a tad too short. My first hat… with chunky yarn… it was bound to happen… but dually noted. The other mishap is that I “short knitted” (I think that’s the term PodMate used) and added two extra rows to about 3 inches of hat. But who cares. I don’t. It’s done and it’s cute and it matches my ribbed-for-her-pleasure scarf perfectly.
That happens when you use the same yarn and the same k2 p2 pattern. You see what I did there? I used knitting lingo. I’m casting on, my crafting friends. Ha ha! I can’t help myself!
But I do think I’m ready for something larger. Something bigger. Something that’s going to take more than 2 skeins of yarn. Just one more thing for me to make for myself. That’s big. So I bought the new strings last night. Here’s the sneak peak:
I know – I’ve become an addict. A knitoholic. But I like it. And so does my mom.
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Susan the Pod-Mate - Yay, another knitaholic! :) I’m sorry we didn’t get to do the photo shoot yesterday, but these pics look great!
And you were close – you knitted short rows, but you can’t even tell! I promise!
Roberta - I knitted myself a skirt when I was in middle school. I thought it was really cute. I think I won a blue ribbon for it at the county fair!!!
Shelli - Very cute! A toboggan, where I come from, is something you ride down a snow covered hill … not something you’d wear on your head. ;-)
Goodbadiffy - I love the color of your new string!
I agree, knitting is totally addictive and if you do it long enough you can see the change in your fingers! :)
shutterboo - Good, because I have two fingers that keep pooping out on me. :)
shutterboo - Yeah yeah – we always called a winter hat a tobaggan but after working with so many different people from the midwest and northeast, I just call it a hat now. I can’t take the teasing.
shutterboo - I could be a smartass, but I won’t. :)
Wendi - It’s a tobeanie. And it’s awesome.