My hat, it has three corners
Tuesday, 09 November, 2004
This is the first hat I made:
Ben says it needs a pom-pom. I told him that if he made one, I'd sew it on for him.
This is the second hat I've made:
The dog and the hat are for Amelie Sorrenson who was born last week. I'm also making a scarf to go with it.
I'm now going to have a go at the Sophie bag but I'm having a bit of trouble deciphering the instructions.
Knitting is a very deceptive form of procrastination because you actually feel like you're doing something useful when in fact you are just avoiding to do all the other things you really do need to do.
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What are u procrastinating.
Writing Sunday school lessons.
Procrastinating? No, I’m blessing someone with a handmade hat from the “knitty” magazine or, even better, making myself somemore socks! (get my priorities right, LOL)
Seriously, can I help with the pattern? It looks fairly simple to me,but I’m used to either circular or doublepointed needles. Email me if I can help.
Shalom,
Jan
Just me again. Is it the abbreviations bothering you?
CO Cast on
BO Bind off. Australian = cast off
PM Place marker.
You can use a small safety pin,a jewllery type jump ring which will fit on needle, a pin with a large head. (KMart sell marker pins in knitting section for under $2) I use a loop of a different colour wool through loop of row underneath. I leave it there till the end. Very easy to remove later and it doesn’t spoil the movement of the knitted fabric as you progress.
I-Cord is very similar to what you get with old fashioned french knitting with a cotton reel etc. You can do that or make a narrow tube by stitching someribbing together, or search net for instructions.
Their needle is bout equal to 5 mm. I’m a loose knitter and would use a 4mm and make sure you don’t use machine washable yarn or it won’t felt.
Great woolshop at Newtown, another at Gerringong although Newtown is probably just as close. Several others through Sydney.
Hope this helps, also hope I’m not telling you things you already knew! Feel free to email.
Jan
Thanks Jan! That’s very helpful. I looked up the abbreviations at About Knitting and tried to work it out. I guess I don’t understand what kind of wool I’m supposed to use—what does “ Cascade 220 [220 yd per 100g]” mean in ply?
It’s probably about a 12ply here I think. When you buy the wool take the tension (gauge) requirements with you. That’s what I did when I made the Coronet hat from Knitty. Then the wool shop can help find an equivalent here.
I’ll see if I can dig up my tables of equivalents and email them to you.
Jan
Sent you an email from your site with details of wool/needle equivalents.
Thanks Jan! I’ve got another question though—are you supposed to place the marker on a stich or between stiches?
Hi Karen,
from the pattern it looks like they are just marking the corners. If you weremaking a very lacy enormous shawl, the markers wouldbe extremely accurate as they would mark the end of a block of stitches for a pattern repeat. In the bag just where the numbers falldeadly accuracy is not quite so essential. If you used a ring, it would sit on theneedles between stitch 54 and 55 (or whatever. On the next round you just slip the stitch across with the needle onto the next needle or the other side of the circular,and then proceed with the knitting.
If you use a pin or my method of a loop of wool it just stays in the fabric. Sometimes I move it upward if the work is very long.
If you are using a circ.needle, it’s handy to have a marker to show you the start of the round. Necessary for example for decreases at a top of a hat, so you don’t do too many.
Circs are different to get used to. Unless there are an enormous number of stitches, you’ll have to stop every so often and actually pull some of the tubing through so you can go on. It makes a loop outside your knitting, but won’t affect the shape of the bag.
I was given heaps of help when I started doing socks, even though I’d been knitting for a long time. It’s good to be able to help.
Jan
Ah! Thanks again!
And the 220yards bit? Some wool gives metreage/yardage/weight/ Some patterns don’t give weight needed but length. A hank or skein US is 100 gm here.
And I don’t know why,but there can be quite a difference in this between wools of the same weight. Make sure you buy enough to finish project.Yarn shop should be of some help here.
Jan