hat

I'm taking part in a stashbusting effort: Personal Small Items club. The idea is to bag patterns and yarn from stash for them, one for each month, and then knit them one a month.

I made my bags in December, and I can't wait to get to open the February one!

In the meantime, I'll show my January finished objects. Originally I just wanted to make the Beret easy! beret with a bulky yarn from my stash. I started it (and actually made it all wrong and way too small the first time and ripped back, knit happily and noticed my yarn ran out. So I ripped it up again, and decided to make it in different yarn. I used a beautiful handspun which I got in a recent swap from the US!

The beret was knit with 4,5 mm Knitpicks circulars and 4mm bamboo dpns.

I made these sets as Christmas presents for a 3-year-old and a 7-year-old girls. I hope they like them!

First the turqoise set (Pinja's set from Ullaneule)

For the hat, I CO 104 stitches and made the hat with 3,5mm dpns. The hat is ca 18 cm long - I made the first version too short, had to rip back to knit more rows. The mitts were made 100% according to the instructions.

The yarn is 7-Veljestä Moniraita (I think).

The red set is Rinsessa also from Ullaneule.net, for the 7 year old.

I cast on less stitches as the instruction says to fit a child's head. Also the mitts I cast on 40 stitches instead of 50. The hat is made as instructed, the mitts I modified to mits-mitts, not fingerless.

finished and sent off some Calorimetries and a cat bed to Ompelukerho . I got the Calorimetries' designers approval for making several of them and selling them for charity. The cat bed might be given as a present to an animal shelter (based on Princess Snowball catbed from S'n'B Handbook).

I hope they get some money for the animals with my knits!

Neuloin Ompelukerholle joulumarkkina-myytäviä!

I've been knitting some Calorimetrys as gifts, and hopefully I will be able to give some to Ompelukerho - women's action group for animal welfare - so they could sell them in the Christmas fairs. I am still waiting for the designers' answer, as I am not  / no one is allowed to sell them without the designers permission.

Olen tehnyt jokusen näitä Calorimetry -päähineitä lahjoiksi, ja toivottavasti saan kaavan suunnittelijalta luvan lähettää niitä Ompelukerholle joulumyyjäisiin myytäväksi. 

A word (or a picture) of warning to all you out there who won't swatch. Remember my hat I was knitting a week back? Here it is knitted up. Nice, huh? 

I thought it just might be a big too big for anyone, so I simply frogged it.

Now I'm thinking should I try to knit the hat again, or just to use the yarn for something else.

The hat was really fun to make; I actually got a serious knitting need last monday and practically finished it in a few hours. 

On the other hand, summer's coming  - I won't be needing such a hat for a long time.

I'll keep you posted - and will knit a swatch next time!