Jason's hat winter 2025-2026

One night at dinner Jason suggested that he would like for me to knit a hat for him.  He didn't really care the color as long as it was dark.  He liked the idea of twining which I interpreted to be cables and he agreed.  But the main thing he wanted as part of his gift was that I did not buy yarn....that I used something that I had on hand. 

I found a very nice dark brown/charcoal alpaca yarn in the drawer in my zodiac chest.  I chose for the pattern a pattern that can be found among my adobe acrobat files as kapapattern002-2.pdf

But when I got to the top third I decided that I would prefer a more form fitting crown.  And so I have switched to an article on Interweave to finish the hat.  This article can be found at:

https://www.interweave.com/article/knitting/hat-crown-decreases-explained/?utm_campaign=IW+Knitting+-+NL&utm_id=Newsletter_20251212_GPM251125029&utm_medium=email&utm_source=omeda&oly_enc_id=2093H2335067G0W

The pattern called for size 9 needles and that is what I am using.  However, the yarn was not as heavy as what I would want with size 9 needles, so I doubled it.

While looking at Interweave's article I found another one on the site about making hats that fit:

https://www.interweave.com/article/knitting/5-tips-for-knitting-hats-that-fit/?utm_campaign=IW+Knitting+-+NL&utm_id=Newsletter_20251208_GPM251125027&utm_medium=email&utm_source=omeda&oly_enc_id=1216A8524389I7F

Hats

Christine found this chart for me at knitting at the Blue Ewe on Wednesday

It can be found at:  https://www.allfreeknitting.com/Knitting-Tutorials/Knitting-Hat-Size-Chart/amp

 I want to make some hats and also find some of the hats I have made over the years to share.  

Wine bottle cover

 I have filed the pattern on drop box.  Knitting patterns>Wine bottle covers  It is also available on my Interweave Knitting account

Seed stitch basket

Impulse buy but I do like it and see it as a great way to use up some variegated yarn. 

 

I stored the pattern among knitting patterns on Drop box  named Seed Stitch Basket.  It has small handles on the ends that are not visible in this picture.  But you can see the handles on Ravelry.

 

Luna Wrap

 Jonathan had a trunk show at the Blue Ewe in early March from Mirasol.  I bought yarn for my next project to knit at the Blue Ewe.  I would never have bought this project if I hadn't seen the shawl in person.  That just shows you how affective a trunk show is.  The pattern was thrown in with the purchase of the yarn.  I have stored the pattern in the chest beside my bedroom door in the knitting drawer.  

The yarn is 

It is a DK weight yarn spun in Peru.  This beautiful tweed yarn is a blend of Superfine Alpaca, Linen and Bamboo Tweed.  I will probably knit the project on a size 5 needle as I would like it to drape well.

Cherie Chevron Shawl

 Finally finished Loop.  Very surprised how quickly I was able to weave in the ends.  So this past week I started my new Blue Ewe project: Cherie Chevron Shawl

I would never have chosen this shawl if I had not looked through the projects to find these particular colors and the owner wearing it exactly this way. I found the photos from the original project to not be nearly so appealing.  I am using yarn from the Blue Ewe:

The Variegated is from Tulip Tree Yarn in Lexington in color evening rainbow and the Red background color is Symphonie Terra in Red Rose.  I am using size 6 needles

I am really enjoying knitting this shawl.  I am using my old method from when I used to do a lot of texture knitting of putting the pattern on notecards with a rubber band.  I used a new method of making the notecards.  Since my pattern was digital, I copied and pasted each row on mailing labels with row number on each.  Then I used the mailing labels on my notecard....it has turned out great.  And I love the fact that when I finish each row I know the stitch count on that row has turned out perfectly.  Which means that I never have to pull out more than one row because of mistakes.  

Snow Day

 I had three doctor's appointments in place for today

All three have called to cancel because of the 

HUGE winter storm that has hit our area .

So I guess this will be a knitting day for me.

Hope to finish my Loop shawl!  And perhaps

start a new Blue Ewe project.