{"id":2282,"date":"2012-11-18T13:55:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T13:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2012-11-18T13:55:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T13:55:31","slug":"a-quartet-of-hats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/18\/a-quartet-of-hats\/","title":{"rendered":"A quartet of hats"},"content":{"rendered":"

After our trip to the Alexandra Palace Knitting and Stitching show in October I came down with a monster three-week cold, and spent some time drifting round the house sniffing, coughing, and feeling sorry for myself. The one good productive side of this is that I knitted up 4 hats, which have now had a good wash to remove any lingering germs \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

First was an Icelandic inspired hat, I started knitting this at a workshop with an Icelandic knitter organised by Janine at Ash:<\/p>\n

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The yarn is Istex Lett-Lopi, and I used 5mm needles.<\/p>\n

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The snowflake pattern is based on one from one of the Lopi books though I fiddled around with it a little, Sue suggested the Vikkel braid, and I made the rest up. The yarn is rather hairy and I was a bit worried that I would find it scratchy, but I think it is going to be ok. Even though this is the thinner of the Lopi yarns it still makes quite a nice warm hat, and I predict it will see lots of use in the coming months.<\/p>\n

The second hat is a bit cheaty because it is only baby size, but it is very cute. This is for my brother-in-law and sister-in-law’s first baby (a girl) who is due to be born around Christmas.<\/p>\n

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The pattern is Beamish<\/a> by Woolly Wormhead, the yarn is KnitPicks Swish DK<\/a> (100% superwash merino) in Hollyberry, I used 3.75mm needles, and made the 16in size. This was a quick and fun knit, and I enjoyed the squiggles on the top.<\/p>\n

My third hat was also a kiddie pattern by Woolly Wormhead, this time Queenie<\/a>, but I sized it up to fit me.<\/p>\n

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I used Artesano Superwash Merino, and 3.75mm and 4mm needles.<\/p>\n

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The yarn was lovely to knit with, but is quite drapey. I think a slighly more substantial yarn might have been better for this style.<\/p>\n

Towards the end of our photoshoot of this one, my Director of Photography said “try not to smile quite so widely”:<\/p>\n

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I think my modelling career may be on hold. This does rather remind me of the old maltesers advert with the crocodile and the wide-mouthed frog.<\/p>\n

The last hat is yet another Woolly Wormhead one, though this time one designed for adults. This is Meret<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I used Cascade 220 which I bought at Ally Pally, 4.5mm needles, and knitted the 22in size.<\/p>\n

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Another fun knit. It has been rather gratifying to knit some smaller projects where you can actually see your progress and have a finished item in a reasonable time. I shall be all kitted out for the winter too now \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After our trip to the Alexandra Palace Knitting and Stitching show in October I came down with a monster three-week cold, and spent some time drifting round the house sniffing, coughing, and feeling sorry for myself. The one good productive side of this is that I knitted up 4 hats, which have now had a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[48,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finished-projects-2012","category-stranded-knitting","category-workshops"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-AO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2291,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/2291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}