
Bonus: this was only my second block of yarn from last summer's Tour de Fleece, and I had already progressed to the point of being able to knit such a thing. Double bonus: it's Blue Faced Leicester fiber which has an insane amount of grab and halo such that I had no fun spinning it at all, and it turns out to be crazy warm and super soft and lofty and just everything you want for a winter hat in Toronto but never really get.
So that makes up for having to frog and reknit the Big Cowl I showed yesterday, don't you think?
This hat isn't done; I'm giving it some little embellishments I haven't decided on quite yet. And then
it's going away.
Heartbroken = me.
However, a funny thing happened yesterday when I collapsed on the sofa with the little Totoro, thinking about whether or not I had the energy to embroider on his eyes (Decidedly Not.) I haven't stuffed him yet either, you see, which means he is at the moment a perfect finger puppet, and after about ten minutes of holding him while staring with glazed eyes at the television which may or may not even have been on, it suddenly struck me that my fingers were warm.
I know, what a lightbulb moment for a knitter. Wool, it's warm! Who knew!
Also, it's not like I didn't buy the undyed Polworth to use in a hat in the first place. It's just that I had been planning to use it as a background from which to feature stronger colours. But I hardly used any of the first plied round on the Totoro, and I spun it to about the same weight as the pinky green stuff.
So now I'm kinda thinking - beret number two?
3 comments:
Beautiful beautiful hat! I'm sad you don't get to keep it, though I'm thrilled that you have enough handspun on hand to knit another for yourself. Maybe you want to try kool-aid dyeing...
Gotta love those lightbulb moments...
The hat is beautiful and what an accomplishment to spin and knit a project! On another note, we are getting snow here today and I am making your mom's chocolate chip cookie recipe you posted last year. In fact, my 12 year old son had to provide a recipe and double it for his math class and this is the recipe he chose!
It's very pretty, and pink looks so good on you!
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