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!
