Christmas Knittery December 6, 2009
Posted by Mitchell in Art, Knitting.trackback
I’ve been working on my knitting lately. This is my current project that isn’t quite finished:
Yes! It’s a Santa hat! I love wearing a these during this season and I’ve got a couple that I switch between. This was supposed to be my really cool one but it isn’t going quite as I expected. The ribbing and cabling make it a lot stiffer than I planned so it’s going to stick straight up all the way. That wasn’t what I was going for actually. Also those cables pulled the hat in a lot tighter than I thought they would so it’s a bit snugger than I wanted. Also also there’s a problem with some of the cables. They ain’t doing right. Check it out below the fold:
See how the centers are pulling out in the twisted parts? The other side looks better and more like it’s supposed to:
I showed this problem to Knitting Jedi Master at the local yarn store this afternoon and she thinks I just wasn’t getting the tension right when I was doing the twists. She’s probably right. I think I can fix them with some stitches on the inside to pull those centers together and make them look they’re supposed to. Anyway, I’m gonna finish this one up pretty quick I hope and put a big poof-ball on top. I’ll make another, better one next year. 🙂
I did some washcloths to practice doing some stitches earlier this year. They turned out so nice that I can’t actually bear to use them though so I’m giving them to my Mom for Christmas.
Broken-Rib Stitch:
This is my first crochet piece that I did to practice the half-double stitch:
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The Center of the Anomaly 
Damn! You’ve come a loooong way since those little swatches you were doing for practice – seemingly about a month ago. Bravo!
BTW: I would LOVE that stiffy-headmitten! (Not a hint – just an observation) It would look juuuust silly enough on me to be worth wearing – especially to Wal Mart*. Way better during the Xmas season than my usual Bassmasters or Ford cap.
*I’ve been hoping I’d appear in one of those “People seen in Wal Mart” photos folks post. No cigar yet, though.
I didn’t mean to imply “silly” about your knitting, you know! But having an “erect” knitted winter sock-cap is kinda strange….
“Is your sock-cap cable-knitted, or are you just happy to see me?”
…and are those Enas eyes peeping out of that first photo?
Wow, that is a cool Santa Hat! I’ve never even thought of knitting a santa hat, great idea.
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Thanks McGoo! Yah I picked up knitting about 5 months ago now actually. I’m fairly well pleased with my progress.
People of Walmart – dare to dream McGoo! You’ll make it someday, I just know it.
Yes, I know what you mean re: “silly”. Particularly after I add the last 3-4 inches with the big, oversized poof-ball on top. Still, I think it will have a dinstinctly Dr. Suessian quality to it where it will straddle the line between silly and cool.
Yup, those be my peepers!
Dr. Suess! Exactly ! I would buy that hat. It’s….me.
And you’re quite obviously getting pretty advanced with this knitting thing!
RE: eyes. We should start a fad where all these secret folks (like me, or Weasel, or cbullitt) who never post a photo post a shot of their eyes. They’re the windows to your face, you know, according to Christopher Walken.
We’re gonna have to get you fixed up. A McGoo in a Suessian hat would make the “People of Walmart” page in a hearbeat!
“Advanced”? Not hardly! I’m still just an egg McGoo and quite prone to make rookie mistakes.
The eyes thing would be cool! Post yours up when you get a chance.
Dude, first thing I thought when I saw the top image….
Sherpa Claus!
I’ve been proudly showing my sauce cozy to all my co-workers and the women snort more than the men when I pull it off the bottle. It’s been great for laughs, which we need more of lately.
That hat is not too small. Your HEAD is too BIG.
Great! Glad to hear it LK!
KC, yup. It’s because I think too much and it gets all swollen. I know! I’ll become a liberal and then it will fit perfectly!
Enas, to become a liberal means you would have to eat a lot of eucalyptus and shrink your brain like a koala.
Don’t do that. Eucalyptus leaves are expensive to import.
Koalas! The stoners of the animal kingdom! That’s the way to do it – smoke weed and shut down all higher brain functions. Works pretty well for Andrew Sullivan eh?