I’m desparately trying to finish BIL Brian’s hat today. I just about had it, tried it on…too short. Darn. Well, it looked good on me, but I doubt it would have on Brian.
Gave me an excellent opportunity to try Amy’s video on inserting your needle in a destination row before unraveling (see Basic Techniques ->…More). It really works, just be sure you’re grabbing the stitch from the same row all around. I had a hard time distinguishing between rows 8 and 9 :rollseyes: geesh, can’t even blame it on alcohol.
Back on track and adding length to the hat. I would really like to get it done tonight, but we’ll see.
I’m using Plymouth Yarn Baby Alpaca in medium blue and white, US 5 needle. I’m using a basic hat pattern from The Knitters Handy Book of Patterns, doing my own funky striping thing. Do you think I should add another stripe (or set of stripes) or just leave it blue to the top?
I love that color blue! I’d just leave the two stripes–very classy. Good work on the non-frogging. I have trouble keeping track of which row I’m on, too, unless there’s a color change or pattern. Better than the alternative, though!
yeah, I’m kinda liking the single set of stripes there too. I might have to make a hat with the opposite patterning b/c I’m going to have nearly a whole ball of that white left…
Very cool to learn new techniques when we mess up, don’t ya think?! I really love it just the way it is, very nice, very classy, very manly, he will it! It will be worn often
Well thanks for the input everyone I finished the hat with no extra stripes. I really like the way that it turned out. It fits me perfectly, and is a little big on DH, which means it should fit Brian just right…I can’t believe I have a bigger head than DH :??
Anywho…I’ll post a picture of the modeled hat when I’m decent and DH is awake to take the pic. :cheering: Yay! Another FO!
:rollseyes: I don’t know if I would go that far, PHM, I mean he’s nice and all, but we work for competing companies, so I don’t know how much “wuv” there is just kidding, he’s a great guy. I did think about putting my company’s logo on the hat, but I thought the better of it. I mean, the yarn was kinda pricey to be a gag gift.
cool to learn new techniques when we mess up, don’t ya think?! I really love it just the way it is, very nice, very classy, very manly, he will 
it! It will be worn often 
I finished the hat with no extra stripes. I really like the way that it turned out. It fits me perfectly, and is a little big on DH, which means it should fit Brian just right…I can’t believe I have a bigger head than DH :??
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just kidding, he’s a great guy. I did think about putting my company’s logo on the hat, but I thought the better of it. I mean, the yarn was kinda pricey to be a gag gift.