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!

one hat, one girl, two pictures

see I have two pictures: In the one, you best see the hat. In the other, you best see the girl.

I want to show off both.

rainbow and 'where are the votes from the ... jury'?

Look what I did with the handdyed fleece from the knitting cow
took one colour and did a bit of yarn, blended that colour with a bit of the next and spun some more. Then added even more of that second colour, until it was solid. Then started adding the third colour. The whole thing mixed with blue/green specks for interest and unity (not very visible on the photograph, which also shows the colours a bit too bright).
What you get is a rainbow.


I will turn it into a hat.


Now for the next thing, I need your votes, please. It is a rather basic skullcap, made of the malabrigo I bought in Santa Cruz (soft!!!!!) and I am thinking of embellishment. One possiblility is a crocheted flower in the same or some other yarn. One other possibility is small felted balls hanging ca. 5 cm from the top in a crocheted string. Also of the same yarn.
I am giving control out of my hands and to you, my blog readers. Which of these two should it be. The one that gets the most votes, I will make.

second and third yarns - tweede en derde garen - andet og tredje garn

my second yarn turned into a hat
mijn tweede garen werd een muts
mit andet garn blev til en hat





the third yarn is made of blue, turquoise and white fleece, combed together
het derde garen is van blauwe, turquoise and witte wol, door elkaar gekamd
det tredje garn er lavet af blå, turkis og hvid uld, kammet sammen




I'm so amazed at how much fun it is to spin
Ik verbaas me er nog steeds over hoe leuk het is om te spinnen
Jeg er stadig forbavset over hvor sjovt det faktisk er at spinde

The-knitting-cow-hat

Quite some time ago I did a swap - I traded candy and a crocheted little critter. In return I got candy and, best of all, handspun yarn from the knitting cow.

From that yarn I made this hat. I loved knitting with it, first of all because it is beautiful, but also the fact that someone, in Finland, made this with her own hands and gave it to me. Thanks once more!

For noget tid siden lavede jeg en byttehandel. Jeg sendte slik og et lille hæklet dyr. I bytte for det fik jeg slik, og, det bedste: håndspundet garn fra the knitting cow.

Fra dette garn lavede jeg en hat. Det var så dejligt at strikke med garnet, for det første fordi det er flot, men også fordi nogen, i Finland, har lavet det med sine egne hænder og gav det til mig. Tak endnu en gang!


Een tijdje geleden deed ik een ruil. Ik stuurde snoep en een klein gehaakt beestje. Terug kreeg ik ook snoep en, het beste: Handgesponnen garen van the knitting cow.

Van dat garen heb ik een muts gemaakt. Het was heerlijk om mee te breien, ten eerste omdat het mooi garen is, maar ook omdat iemand, in Finland, met haar eigen handen het gemaakt heeft, en het aan me heeft gegeven. Nogmaals dank!

My januari project - mit januar projekt

First of all: Anybody who can tell me how to get blogger NOT to rotate my picture, tell me! Until then: rotate your heads (to the left).


A hat in slipstitch. The stitch was found in the library copy of Barbara Walkers second treasury of knitting stitches that I reluctantly have returned. But it has been used by a lot of people on a dishcloth as suggested by Mason-Dixon knitting.
In order to shape the top, the amount of stitches between the slipped stitches (5 to start with) were gradually reduced (until none were left).

Yarn is from the same unfinished sweater as the slipstitch hat I produced earlier, see the entry
here
knitted on two circular, 4 mm needles.

This project is my entry for the 12 projects in 2007 group. It also goes into my yarndiet group, but I have to weigh it and I have no digital scales!

En hat i 'slipstitch' (hvad hedder den i grunden på dansk???). Jeg har fundet den i Barbara Walkers second treasury of knitting stitches, som jeg desværre skulle aflevere til biblioteket igen. Man kan også se den mange steder på nettet, for 'Mason-Dixon' knitting foreslår den på en grydelap.
For at forme toppen reducerede jeg maskerne mellem de 'slippede' (damn, hvad hedder det nu?) masker over flere omgange (fra 5 til 0). Garnet er det samme som jeg brugte til en tidligere hat, se den her

Strikket på to rundstrikkepinde, 4mm.

Denne hat er mit bidrag til gruppen '12 projekter i 2007'. Det er også en del af brugditgarnlager gruppen, men jeg skal jo veje den og har ikke en vægt som er digital!

Een 'slipstitch' muts (ik weet niet hoe dat heet in het nederlands - afgehaalde steek-steek? (en trouwens ook niet in het deens). Ik heb de steek gevonden in Barbara Walkers second treasury of knitting stitches die ik helaas weer moest inleveren bij de bibliotheek. Je kunt die steek ook elders zien, want Mason-dixon knitting heeft 'm op een pannelap. Om de top te vormen heb ik langzaamaan de steken tussen de afgehaalde steken gereduceerd van 5 tot 0. Het garen is hetzelfde als voor die eerdere muts, die je hier kunt zien.

Gebreid met twee 4 mm rondbreinaalden.

Deze muts is de eerste van mijn 1 projekt per maand group (en Lieke: ik maak geen grote dingen zoals truien, daardoor denk ik dat het gaat lukken). Het is ook een deel van mijn garendieetgroep, maar ik moet hem nog wegen en heb geen digitale weegschaal.

Kaffe Fasset reinvention

knitting ajour is going to a workshop with Kaffe Fasset and I am jealous. I own two of his books, the famous 'glorious knitting' and 'family album'. The idea of knotting smaller pieces of yarn in similar colours together and then knitting a basically 2-colour pattern which then transforms into 30+ colour pattern is, imho, a stroke of genius. Actually I made a sweater for myself in the early 90ies in the poppy pattern with blues and reds, a baby sweater with floating circles and a childrens' sweater in a 'brushstroke' (orange and pinks combined with blues and greens).
I also started a sweater for myself in 'jacks stripe in greens, blues, turquoise and purples - my favorite colours. However, I never finished that sweater. There are two reasons for me not to finish it now. The first is my decision a couple of years ago not to knit big things anymore. I need to have the satisfaction of finishing something more often than once a year. Also, fashion has changed, and whereas it was ok to have a big baggy sweater back in the 90ies, that is not so hot anymore (although it could become so, I am sure). Anyway I am frogging the whole thing (which is a front, a back and half a sleeve) and the result is 'selfstriping' yarn in my favourite colours - with loads of knots. The first thing I made with this (using the purples and turquoises) is this hat, of which I found a pattern on a swedish blog (you have to scroll down a bit to find the hat).

Actually, slip stitch colour patterns are a stroke of genius too and combined with the Kaffe Fasset selfstriping knot yarn method, I think you get a fabulous result without having to untangle any yarns! Another stroke of genius, by the way, would be to combine these two strokes and add the technique of modular knitting (aka domino knitting) - do this and you'll end up doing things like Horst Schulz (I can't seem to find his own site but look here to get the idea.)

Slaughtered pomatomus

Traditionally, Danes eat cod on New Years' eve. Why I don't know. I didn't but we had a fabulous time at our friends' house with loads of children, nice food and company. Hope you all came into the new year in a good way!
The hat is another knitty-pomatomus interpretation.

Traditionelt spiser man torsk nytårsaften i Danmark (hvorfor, egentligt???). Det gjorde jeg ikke men vi havde det skidesjovt hos nogle venner med masser af børn, lækkert mad og god selskab. Håber I alle kom ind i det nye år på en god måde!
Hatten er en ny interpretation af knitty's pomatomus.

In Denemarken eet men traditioneel kabeljauw op oudejaarsavond. Waarom weet ik niet. En waarom heet het eigenlijk oudejaarsavond maar 'New years eve' (plus het equivalent van de engelse term in het deens)??
Ik heb geen kabeljauw gegeten maar had een fantastisch leuke avond bij vrienden thuis met een hoop kinderen, lekker eten en goed gezelschap. Ik hoop dat jullie ook allemaal goed het nieuwe jaar zijn ingekomen!
De muts is een knitty-pomatomus interpretatie

another crocheted hat - nog een gehaakte hoed - en til hæklet hat

I made another crocheted hat. It folds out like a harmonica, in three layers

Ik heb nog een gehaakte hoed gemaakt. In drie lagen, hij vouwt uit als een harmonica

Jeg lavede en hæklet hat til. I tre lag, den folder ud som en harmonica.

Hat, inspired by the "Woodstock hooker puzzle hat"

There's this guy I found on the net, and apart from having an incredible voice (play the video) he has this talent with a hook. On his site you can see the 'puzzle hat' and I decided to make one. It's a hat you can wear in different styles. Jonathan James published a pattern of three of his hats in a book (although I do not know whether it's this one) and you can also buy his hats.

I found out that my (well ok, the university's) new computer can make pictures. These are not from a camera!

AFTERTHOUGHT

Been in contact with Jonathan James - he says this hat is not in the crochet book.

Irie hat - free pattern

Directions in Danish and Dutch will be posted soon!




The inspiration for this hat comes from several places. What really got me going was Hildes butt cushion. See I have a 9-year old doing fingerknitting all of the time and producing strings, we didn’t know what to do with. Hildes site shows how fingerknit strings become great snakes of felt, when done in wool and put in the washing machine.

Also, on craftster I saw several people doing something with felted dreadlocks as extensions. Since I have nothing to ‘extend’ I put them on a hat. The result is not quite a wig, but rather a hat with a big and long and specific type of tassel. The hat is specifically designed to hold the bunch of dreadlocks.

Then, finally, you crafters all have seen the ways in which felted beads are embellished with embroidery, glass beads etc. You can go wild on dreadlocks too!

The hat is a ‘headhugger’ and I must admit that people with hair will have to use hairpins to keep it on, or make it so long it will cover the ears. Also people that are bald because of chemotherapy or who are freshly shaven will have to make the hat that long - the weight of the dreadlocks will simply drag a hat like you see in the picture off your head. The hat will stick to one-three day stubbs though - it works like velcro ;-) .


Here’s the directions:


1. make dreadlocks. I made mine from 100% wool yarn in two ways, which produces dreadlocks in two thicknesses. For the thick ones, you can do fingerknitting (or let your child do that!). See hildes website
for instructions.

The thin ones are crocheted. I can think of other ways to make dreadlocks although I haven’t tried it myself:
-from yarn: make a very loose braid, felt in the washing machine
On very thick needles: CO a number of st. that will get the length of the unfelted dreadlock, BO in the 2nd or 3rd needle.
-from roving: handfelt

5 thick and 2 thin dreadlocks will be a good bunch.

2. You can handpaint the dreadlocks and the yarn you’re gonna use for the hat - use Kool-Aid, Easter egg colouring or food colour. I used food colour from the ‘Dr. Oetker’ brand: Mix equal parts of food colouring and vinegar. Soak the dreadlock and yarn in water - plunch the colour on and kneed it through. Put in a Microwave save container and perform a series of 1 minute nuke and 2 minute rest until the liquid you can squeeze out of yarn and locks is clear.
Hand wash dreadlocks and yarn.

A tip: Use white and light grey yarn for the dreadlocks and paint them the same colour. You’ll get different shades.

3. Knit the hat:
Yarn: Worsted weight, 100% wool
Needles: set of 4/5 or two circulars 5mm (US nr. 8, UK/Can nr 6)

CO 66 st. The hat is knitted in a twisted-not twisted pattern:
1 round: *k1 tbl, p1* - repeat directions between *
2. round: *k1, p1* - repeat directions between *


Knit 25 rounds for a sculcap version, 31-35 ronds for a over-the-ear version, the last round being a twisted rib round.
Start decreasing:
1st round*k 2 tog, k 10 in rib pattern, k2 tog, k 8* repeat directions between * 3 times. (The decreases are all made with a k st as the first, which is knitted together with a p st.)
2nd round: knit all stitches in pattern (with the k st tbl,. You’ll find two k st. on the place where the decreases are)
3rd round: *k 2 tog, k 9, k2 tog, k7* repeat directions between * 3 times.
4th round: knit all stitches in pattern
5th round: *k 2 tog, k 8, k2 tog, k7* repeat directions between * 3 times
6th round: knit all stitches in pattern

continue in this fashion by decreasing every 2nd round on the exact place where the former decreases were (you’ll have one less st. between decreases for every 2nd round) until you have 12 st on your needle (this will be after you have decreased for the 9th time)

k 3 rounds in pattern
last decrease round: k 2 tog 6 times
k 2 rounds in pattern
BO

4. Finishing:

Stitch the dreadlocks firmly together first, then place them in the hole on the top of the head and attach them to it all the way round. Weave in ends.


You like what you see? post a comment! You made one? Direct me to your blog!