Hats, hats galore!

After I completed a couple scarves, I was ready to attempt hats. I whipped out Stitch 'n' Bitch, a phenomenal book for beginners, and picked the easy beanie hat they had. It's worked flat, and is very very simple. My first attempt (in wool) was somewhat of a disaster -- I followed the color pattern instructions and then did the decrease, as opposed to doing both simultaneously, which is what I was supposed to do. I don't have a picture of it, probably because no one wanted to model it. However, later attempts in softer yarn were captured on camera, and I have some of those.

Skills I learned: Knit two together
Sewing work together

Here, I'm modeling the hats (dramatically!) and demonstrating their functionality by wearing one of them to the Screw your Roommate ice skating from junior year. That's my good friend, Vishal, with me. It was tons of fun.







This last hat is also in the same style as the others -- however, I used much thinner yarn and smaller needles. It was originally going to be for my boyfriend-at-the-time who has a huge head. I thought I'd gotten around the 'size' problem by adding in a few stitches. As you can see here, it barely fits me, and I have a tiny head. Oops.



After I'd made a bunch of adult-sized hats (and was running out of people to give them to!), I decided to make some hats for premature babies. There are a lot of places you can donate them, and a bunch of free patterns on the web.

Skills I learned: Seed stitch
Stockingette Stitch



Here you can see the first one I made. Adorable!



This was the third one I made, and I used the heart pattern from Stitch 'n' Bitch to add a cute little touch.



Here are a couple next to a gumwrapper so you can get some size perspective. So tiny!

That's all for now -- of course, more hats to follow!