And so, we come to the end of my crazy hat making. I really have no particular desire to knit any more hats any time soon, though I did promise Sam I would knit him a hat in Redskins colors for his birthday. I will have to suck up the courage and fortitude in order to knit a boring man hat. I know the recipient will like it when it’s done, however… meh. Though, I do think I already have the yarn in my stash somewhere, so I don’t have to run around looking for it in a store. I am tempted to do some sort of colorwork on it to keep my attention. I wonder if there are any sort of terrible Indian motifs I could use? Haha! Well, they ARE the Redskins…
Anyway, so here is the hat I knit Stefanie at work. She paid me for it in February and I only just finished it, but she was cool with the delay and had a great reaction to finally receiving it. There were squeals of joy, so I have my suspicions that she liked it. I am hoping to get a picture of her wearing it at some point. But here are some pictures of the hat, which I designed to have cables going up the earflaps and in the front.
It’s super cute, if I say so myself. One of the things that I did differently for this hat was I tried out using applied I-cord for the edging. I’d never done it before, and it worked out just as I’d hoped – it smoothed out the rough edges and even flattened the stockinette areas of the earflaps which were popping out funny.
The color is very wrong in all the photos I took. It’s actually a deep periwinkle blue in worsted weight Malabrigo. Mmm, Malabrigo.
I must confess, I did buy some awesome brown Dream in Color Classy to make myself a similar hat with cabling and flaps but I have lost the will to knit hats at the moment. So, we’ll see.
Meanwhile, I finished my Lacunae Socks I knit out of Miss Babs sock yarn in the Terracopper colorway. I love Lacunae socks (a knitspot/Anne Hanson pattern) and I think they may be my go-to “vanilla” socks, since they’re mostly ribbing. I still have to take a picture of those, though.