diversify

After a year of knitting socks almost exclusively it was time to knit something different. I am all for instant gratification and chose something quick for this first after sock knit era, a hat.  A few months ago I saw this hat chez Millefeuilles and I immediately knew I wanted my own version. On it went onto my Ravelry queue. I loved the pattern and the slouchyness of the hat. The Ravelry pattern is here. It is called Rosewater. Apparently the pattern was inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, a famous Scottish architect. You can read about him here, or you could visit me in Glasgow and we could explore the Mackintosh architecture on foot. I was digging deep in my stash to find suitable yarn and found two balls of grey merino yarn. The brand is Bernetta Supra. I don't think it is available in the UK but it is not unlike Drops Karisma. I bought the yarn in Switzerland many years ago to knit stripes into an orange jumper Sam had commissioned. Sam's favourite colour has been orange since he was two years old. You can see the jumper here, it is a bit loud but Sam loved it to death.

Knitting the the hat was straightforward but the pattern was not one to be easily memorised. I didn't. There was only one and half repeats so barely worth my (elusive) brainpower. I had to pay close attention to the chart because the pattern is asymmetric in places. The instructions called for aggressive blocking so I did. Funny that, I wasn't quite sure what this actually meant but I did my best to at least give aggressive impression whilst pinning it down on my ironing board.

The light is appalling at the moment, dark even in broad daylight and the photos are not great but I am sure the hat will show up in later outdoorsy posts and you can seen it then in a better light. I tried to take a selfie but unfortunately I looked like an alcoholic turkey (red faced, spotty and wrinkly) so you have to make do with Annie modelling the hat. I might have to tape my double chin back and maybe also my cheeks for future photo shots. A bit of sellotape works wonders, I have seen the proof (before and after).

 

Righty, I really need to cast on my next project, a scarf inspired by Missoni. I need to make the best of my free evenings because next week, I am starting my English Communication and Literature course and I am sure I'll be busy reading and learning about correct punctuation.

As always, thank you so much or stopping by and leaving nice comments. I really love to hear from you. I have started replying to comments directly by email (unreliably so but I try) but I can't do that if you are a no-reply blogger. If you are, I usually visit all my commenting readers' blogs and say hello there.

Have a lovely week. The forecast is for more of the same with gale force winds. Today there I was battered by tiny tiny hailstones, or maybe tiny tiny snowballs. It was painful. Cx