CrafTBQ

I cast on last night for a hat to match the ribbed scarf. I’m using the third ball of yarn that I bought, with an anticipation that I may need to dip into a fourth. If so I’m going to switch to another color.

Pattern-wise I’m basing it off of the ribbed brim variation in Last Minute Knitted Gifts, but I’m doing a 2×2 rib instead of 1×1, again to match the scarf.  I’ve never done an adult hat before, let alone made adjustments to a pattern for one, so we’ll see how it goes.

Oh, and I had to change the count to adjust for the different yarn and subsequent gague.  But, you know, other than that exactly like the pattern in the book.

To be honest this is one of the things that I like about knitting. It’s similar to cooking in that I like having some general guidelines, but tweaking them as needed.  That the tweaking often involves math is merely a geeky side benefit.

Granted we’ll see if the hat fits and/or stays on my head once I’m done, but if not that’s what gifts or ripping is for.

So project wise on the needles now are the hat, which is good brainless knitting, and my BGAL project which is good for when I have a brain and wish to sit and knit.

I finished the ribbed scarf that I was working on.  As you can see, it is not your average ribbed scarf:

It’s a little hard to tell from the photo but that’s about eight rows of box stitch at the end.  I wanted the end of the scarf to have a little texture to it.  Little did I realize that the ribbing would be far more elastic than the boxing, which is one of those things that’s really obvious in hindsight but not so much during.

I like how it came out, though. It’s a little different, and it does fulfill my desire for the end not to be boring.  The scarf’s about five feet long. I could’ve made it longer but I reached a point where binding off was more important than extra length.  I’ve got an extra skein of yarn that I’ll use to make a hat, possibly a plain ribbed one to match it, possibly a cable one. We’ll see which design wins out by the time I have brainpower enough to cast on for something new.

I’m fond enough of the way this combo of stitches stretches that I’d love to try designing a sleeve with that as the end. I think it’d be pretty.  Then again, what do I know about sleeve design?