2008 April Archive at a fine kettle of stitches

Mirasol Sulka. Divinely soft, unbelievably smooth, serenity in a skein. I could knit with this yarn forever.

Simple mistake rib scarf for my Aunty L, knit the first time on 6mm needles. It wasn’t as soft as it could be, plus it seemed a little short, so I frogged and reknit the whole thing on 7mm needles. In the usual run of things having to do something twice would bug the hell out of me and, in fact, I would have stopped and restarted at a much earlier stage. But I was very reluctant to stop knitting with that dreamy strip of cloud.

I really want to make something big out of this. Big Girl Knits advises that a person my size should not wear garments made of chunky yarn, but I don’t really care. I want a complete set of garments, including underwear, all made of Sulka.

I’m thinking everybody I know needs some of this stuff in their life.
And I’m the girl to knit it for them

I really seem to be all about the hats lately

I had another ball of Baby Bamboo and after reading about newborns needing hats for the first little while, I thought this yarn would be perfect. No sweaty little baby-pate with bamboo. A very simple hat was the thing, and one that Baby could continue to wear through the spring. My favorite hats are 2/2 rib because they’ll fit such a wide range of sizes, snug enough to stay on the littlest noggin, but not tight. I wanted it to fit from 10 to 14 or so inches, so after checking my gauge on the booties I made, I cast on 84 stitches. Six inches later I started decreasing. I had to do this twice, of course, miscalculting the first time and ending up with a wearable but very strangely shaped hat. I put the decreases in the purl sections as far as possible to maintain the rib. I could have bound off a couple of rows earlier, really, it still has a bit of a point on the top, but I’m really pretty happy with it.