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01/13/2006

odd fellow and a refinished hat

Knit as soon as I received Jess Hutch's fabulous booklet. I used leftovers in Jaeger Shetland Aran (light blue), Patons Classic Wool (brown) and an unidentifiable acrylic (tan). Next time I think I'll work on not overstuffing the arms and legs.

I also finally refinished a hat I knit for my sister for her birthday...last summer. It was a little too small so I frogged all the decreases at the top, knit an extra 2-ish inches, and redid the decreases.



It's knit with Rowan Polar, in Smirk. I've been so sad that Rowan discontinued this yarn. It's amazing to work with - really easy on my hands, the stitch definition is great, and the finished product is so soft...On the plus side, now I can get it cheap ("cheap" for Rowan, which isn't necessarily saying much) online.
The "design" is my own - decide how wide around it should be, use my known gauge to figure out how many stitches around it should be, ribbing for an inch, knit until I think it's the right height, and try to decrease nicely (in this case it was something like *K9,K2tog* for one row, K one row, *K8,K2tog* for one row, K one row, and so on). I tend to overshoot or undershoot the height of the first part, although I think with this hat it was just a case of not having the same taste as my sister does.

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