I started this beanie when we were in
Thredbo a couple of weeks ago but I undid it all on Tuesday night after realising that I probably couldn't in all conscience give the beanie as it was with all the dodgey stitches and mistakes. I wasn't too sad pulling it apart as I was watching back to back episodes of season 1 of
The Hour late into the night and was happily knitting away. If you haven't seen The Hour by the way, then you must - because apart from anything story related (which is brilliant) it will make you want to go out and make a
Charlotte pencil skirt!) Really!
The beanie is knitted using Felici Sport Self Striping Yarn in Dockside (which I think is being discontinued). I bought four balls of this on ebay after seeing the
socks made by Jen from Grainline. I'm not sure why I bought four given this beanie only used one but there you go.
The seam (which I'm hiding) is a little bit dodgy but.. all in all I think a pretty cute make for only my second knitting project.
Given I'm posting about this baby beanie I thought I'd pull from the archives the gift I made for the big brother of this little baby to be. I made this quilt back in June 2010. Looking at it now I probably could have thought a bit more about the colour placement but I had a lot of fun making this. Funny, how these two gifts probably took about the same amount of time!
I think your hat looks great! Yay for knitting!
ReplyDeleteWow! Both of these projects look great! I think I have a couple of quilts in my future, I may need to pick your brain before I start! :) did you machine or hand-quilt?
ReplyDeleteThanks Morgan. I like to handquilt because I find it nice and relaxing in front of a movie or something, whereas I find the whole putting a lot of material under the machine a bit stressful.. but that's me and my machine isn't really equipped for it. My hand stitching is always a bit dodgey but not nearly as uneven as my machine stitching would be.
ReplyDeleteThanks Gail.. just baby steps at this stage .. but I'll keep on trying.
ReplyDeleteI really like the pompom with the self striping!
ReplyDeleteYou are such a thoughtful and generous baby-gift giver! These two items are simply gorgeous, and will be much appreciated. The good thing about buying four balls of wool? you can still make yourself those socks! :D
ReplyDeleteOh yes, but I have to really improve my knitting for that. Unfortunately my generousity is directly proportional to how generous I am feeling at the time :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Julianne! I tried to make sure I used all the colours.. but looking at it now it does probably need a little bit more of a trim.
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