Hats

I cannot get enough of hats. Two more finished:





Today I was just busy buying yarn for yet another hat (a gift for a friend), when Julia walked in the yarn shop. Julia introduced me to Mette, who I know virtually. It is so much fun to meet internet knitting friends in real life!



Hat 1: handspun (not by me) found in a thrift shop, undyed, Elizabeth Zimmerman Knitting without tears: Snail hat, needles 5,5
Hat 2: handspun (not by me) found in a thrift shop, handdyed with food colouring, Elizabeth Zimmerman Knitting Almanac: Ganome hat. needle 5.5.

Model: Simone

head and toe

Because everybody else was making them too:



done on 2 circulars, at once. Which actually posed some cognitive challenges.

Because I had made the yarn and it was hard to find the 'right' project for it:


no knitting challenges here. Just follow the pattern (from 'Knitting in the nordic tradition'). A little bit of anxiety at the end (will I have enough yarn???) but it worked out.

Urchin

Pattern by Ysolda Teage to be found on Knitty






Added: List of other urchins

Ysolda Teague (the designer)
Breibeest
Cosymakes
k2sc1
stitching for sanity

And if you've found more of them on the net, please report to me!

a new handspun hat

Yarn spun on the spindle, nepalese wool (bought) blended with pencil roving (inherited).
Hat knit as an evolving thing (no swatch, planning or pattern).

And it works, too!

Any mystery of the spinning wheel seems to be solved - Froukje solved the issue. She recognizes the wheel as the one that were produced late 70ies in a anticapitalistic, antiauthority cooperative workshop in Leeuwarden, where she used to work. I cannot believe sometimes the world being so small.


Het spinnewiel mysterie opgelost - zie Froukjes kommentaar op mijn laatste post.


Rokkens mysterium er løst. I en kommentar på min sidste post fortæller Froukje at hun genkender den som den slags, der sidst i 70erne blev fremstillet i et antikapitalistisk, antiautoritet cooperativt værksted, hvor hun også arbejdede. Jeg kan ikke forstå verden nogle gange er så lille.

And so, here you can see what can be done on an anticapitalistic spinning wheel. My first twisted yarn. Just wait, there's more to come!

Kijk hier maar es wat je op een antikapitalisties wiel maken kunt. Mijn eerste meerdradige garen. Meer volgt!

Og her ser man så hvad der kan laves på en antikapitalistisk rok. Mit første garn med flere tråde. Bare vent, der kommer mere!