My last hat of 2009 was Coline. I saw it on {a black pepper} and the knit combined with her always gorgeous photography made this jump onto my list. She has such wonderfully intricate sweater patterns that I would love to try but alas my knitting has now been relegated to things I can finish quickly (i.e. not sweaters) so I will have to settle for her rather extensive and lovely hat collection
Yarn: Queensland Llama Seta
Inspiration: Coline (Raverly Link Here)
Needles: Size 5 for the ribbing, size 6 needles for the rest
Yardage: approx. 176 yards (2 balls)
Modifications: Used Ysolda’s Cable Cast On. Knit 1×1 ribbing using US5 instead of stockinette
Enjoyment Factor: 9
The Good:
- Yet another stashbusting exercise. This one was a little less of a stashbust as I had allocated this yarn for sale, but because I loved the yarn as a hat with my slouchy copycat hat I decided to steal a few balls before I put my final count of yarn up. Good decision on my part 🙂
- The pattern is very well written and produced a wonderful hat. I just love how the inside of each bubble is a different pattern
The Bad:
- I really wanted a slouchy hat and this pattern just seems a bit stiff for the “just keep knitting and it will become slouchy” pattern modification I have been doing to the hats. Unlike the other hats I blocked this one rather hard to get the slouch and it seems to have worked out…sorta.
The Ugly:
- I got nothin’
Sorry for the rather concise blog post on this one, but I am super tired and need to get to bed. This going back to work after semi-retirement (a.k.a. 16 days off) is for the birds 😦