Happy New Year! I hope that your holiday season went particularly well and that 2023 will be a happy and successful year for you. Mind you, it’s been a chilly start to the year, hasn’t it… Even here in sunny Florida, we have been reaching for our winter woollies and hats when heading out of doors.
Unfortunately, I made the mistake of leaving a number of my hats in Sweden when we left at the end of the summer. So I decided that it would be a fun project to make a few more – and I have been really enjoying it.
There’s something very satisfying about making a hat, isn’t there. For a start, they’re small so they’re finished in double-quick time. And for a second thing, the knitting speeds up as you get towards the top! That’s always a nice feeling – “Oooh, I might finish this tonight!”
Unfortunately, I made the mistake of leaving a number of my hats in Sweden when we left at the end of the summer. So I decided that it would be a fun project to make a few more – and I have been really enjoying it.
There’s something very satisfying about making a hat, isn’t there. For a start, they’re small so they’re finished in double-quick time. And for a second thing, the knitting speeds up as you get towards the top! That’s always a nice feeling – “Oooh, I might finish this tonight!”
However, when I started with this project I realised that I don’t actually have many hats in my pattern store. I have lots of different scarves but only a few hats, so I thought that I might try to put that right this year and add a few more hat patterns.
I also want to make some more items that co-ordinate with each other so you could make a hat and a scarf set, for example. I enjoyed knitting a co-ordinated collection for myself last year as you can see in my last blogpost, so I am going to see if I can add a few more sets of items to add to my website.
I also want to make some more items that co-ordinate with each other so you could make a hat and a scarf set, for example. I enjoyed knitting a co-ordinated collection for myself last year as you can see in my last blogpost, so I am going to see if I can add a few more sets of items to add to my website.
The hat I am currently working on is going to be the Petersfield Beanie Hat, to co-ordinate with the Petersfield Scarf which you can see in the photo above. This is a super-warm scarf which is worked using two ends of a Sportweight yarn held together.
I like using doubled yarns as they really do seem to make warmer items, as I wrote about here. So I have used the same approach with this new beanie hat and I am loving how this is coming out.
I hope to finish that this weekend, and then I will add the pattern to my website. I’ll post more details as soon as I have that ready.
Until then – Happy New Year Knitting!
Moira
I like using doubled yarns as they really do seem to make warmer items, as I wrote about here. So I have used the same approach with this new beanie hat and I am loving how this is coming out.
I hope to finish that this weekend, and then I will add the pattern to my website. I’ll post more details as soon as I have that ready.
Until then – Happy New Year Knitting!
Moira
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