Category Archives: hat

FO Friday – Clearing out the 2008 Knits – small ones

Wednesday was a sad day.  I didn’t have anything on the needles to show you, so instead I let you continue to look at Patience.  Monday is the last completed dress and then I get to share with you the future of this project.

Pattern: Lillehammer by Jacquelynn Vance-Kuss [...]

FO Friday – Pre-Christmas gifting

There’s a bit of an FO backlog here at the PoF headquarters.  I had saved up FOs to post for ya’ll while I was on vacation in Hawaii and then I totally ran out of time and then disappeared for October.  So please bear with me while I catch ya’ll up.  First let me distract [...]

FO Friday – 1 Goal down

Pattern: Urchin by Ysolda Teague M size Raveled Here
Yarn: Noro Transitions (discontinued) 3/4th of a skein in color 2
Needles: US 11 Brittany DPNs
Mods: None.

Facts to Remember: Just because you get gauge and it will fit on your head does not mean that it will look good. I should have followed the size [...]

FO Friday – 3 for the price of one

My hair behaving just right
Pattern: A Better Bucket (PDF) by Amy Swenson Raveled hereYarn: Malabrigo Yarn Merino Worsted 92 grams (199 yards) BurgundyNeedles: US 8 (5.0mm) Harmony InterchangeableMods: Used solaris’ mod for a larger brim and hat so that I could fit all my hair under it. I also knit the crown an [...]

WIP Wednesday – a bit late

This week has been hard. I have barely knit. Maybe a few stolen stitches here and there, but not many since I got back from our anniversary weekend. I have finished a WIP from last week but mostly I have only touched a few things so I will just show you what [...]

FO Friday – the simple but great

Pattern: A Hat fit for a Boyfriend by Stephanie Nicole Raveled hereYarn: Malabrigo Yarn Merino Worsted 1/2 skein (100g/216 yds) in Black. (100% merino wool)Needles: US 7 (4.5mm) Knitpick’s Interchangeables.
Mods: This pattern was super easy it was so hard to change anything. The pattern as written finishes at the tip of the [...]

WIP Wednesday

Since I finished wicked on Saturday, I needed something to work on Easter while visiting friends. I finished up the first endpaper mitts pretty quickly. I thought I had a lot further to go on this one. I was amazed to work on it so little and finish up one mitt. [...]

FO Friday: FO block gone

I have 2 FOs to show you today. Hopefully I can add the Big Green Monster to this pile before the weekend ends. My goal is Sunday night when bud gets on the plane back to SpoVegas.
In order of completion,

Pattern: Firebrick mittens (ravelry link)Yarn: Mountain Colors 4/8’s Wool Colorway: Ruby River 1/2 [...]

WIP Wednesday – Served up on a plate

RSS Readers: Let me know if the RSS flickr pics are bugging you. I edited my RSS and can’t decide.

I have been craving glazed carrots recently. I am not really a fan of cooked carrots but it is project spectrum right now and thought I would try to appease the masses. So, [...]

Weekend Review – the missing FO

Churchable is trying to fix the silver brick, which is what he did while I knit a hat.
Since churchable was going skiing and I had slipped two balls of yarn in his stocking for Christmas destine to be a ski hat, I knew I had to whip up a hat super quick. After knitting [...]