Knitting my way to RSI

19 April 2006

At the weekend I made a hat for John, my first production for someone I know. He’d requested black with a contrasting stripe and no turned-up brim. I adapted the pattern I used for the red hat and made it only six inches long before the decreasing as he has a tiny head. Tiny. I think I got some of his head units.

Here he is, modelling the hat. The hat with a Ring of Fiiiiire:

I also recently finished a long ribbed scarf from my own pattern. At the end and beginning of each colour block, I had two rows of stocking stitch, which made fun little indentations in the rib at the changeovers.

The hat I’m wearing below with the scarf in such totally mismatched gay abandon is the latest item to be finished. It’s the same black as John’s, no turn-up, but 7 inches long before the decreasing. The stripes and crown are done in the kryptonite green. A bit of a bitch to sew up because of the stripes, but I managed. How? Through being shit hot, that’s how.

Knitted hat