{"id":154,"date":"2009-09-29T15:11:54","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T22:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2010-06-24T13:09:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T20:09:42","slug":"hatapalooza-2009-an-epilogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/hatapalooza-2009-an-epilogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatapalooza 2009, an Epilogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And so, we come to the end of my crazy hat making. \u00a0I 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. \u00a0I 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&#8217;s done, however&#8230; meh. Though, I do think I already have the yarn in my stash somewhere, so I don&#8217;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. \u00a0I wonder if there are any sort of terrible Indian motifs I could use? Haha! Well, they ARE the Redskins&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, so here is the hat I knit Stefanie at work. \u00a0She 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. \u00a0There were squeals of joy, so I have my suspicions that she liked it. \u00a0I 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Stefanie's Viking-esque Hat by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/3964171917\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2530\/3964171917_b0d7c408e9_m.jpg\" alt=\"Stefanie's Viking-esque Hat\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Stefanie's Viking-esque Hat by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/3964946110\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2628\/3964946110_55faf49111_m.jpg\" alt=\"Stefanie's Viking-esque Hat\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;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&#8217;d never done it before, and it worked out just as I&#8217;d hoped &#8211; it smoothed out the rough edges and even flattened the stockinette areas of the earflaps which were popping out funny.<\/p>\n<p>The color is very wrong in all the photos I took. \u00a0It&#8217;s actually a deep periwinkle blue in worsted weight Malabrigo. Mmm, Malabrigo.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I finished my Lacunae Socks I knit out of Miss Babs sock yarn in the Terracopper colorway. \u00a0I love Lacunae socks (a knitspot\/Anne Hanson pattern) and I think they may be my go-to &#8220;vanilla&#8221; socks, since they&#8217;re mostly ribbing. \u00a0I still have to take a picture of those, though.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/hatapalooza-2009-an-epilogue\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so, we come to the end of my crazy hat making. \u00a0I 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. \u00a0I will have to suck up the courage and fortitude in order &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/hatapalooza-2009-an-epilogue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hatapalooza 2009, an Epilogue&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,162,4],"tags":[72,241],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-hats","category-knitting","tag-malabrigo","tag-personal-designs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}