Double knit hat

Recipient: DD1
Designer: Moi
Pattern: As yet untitled
Due: N/A
Colours: Baby blue and lavender
Yarn: Plymouth Encore 75% acrylic 25% wool
WIP status: About 1 inch past the stop of the increasing

2008-Mar-12

I said I'd put this project on the back-burner. Apparently, I lied. I simply could not resist the challenge of getting the cast-on right. Finally, I despaired, and started wondering whether I should solve the problem by doing the hat from the top down. Then I remembered the Eastern closed-tube cast-on that I'd just done for my dad's socks, and decided to give it a whirl for double knitting.

And holy crap.



Check out that cast-on. Just look at its proud, happenin' seamlessness! Even better? Here's the other side:



I am in looove with this cast-on. My double knitting technique still needs work to get equal tension on each side, but hey, the cast-on is amazing.

2008-Mar-3

Last week sometime, I think it was, DD1's winter hat went missing. This was a serious problem, because it is an excellent hat. It's made of pink fleece, it has a snowflake on it, and it has earflaps that completely cover her ears snugly, which is a huge plus. Moreover, the only other winter hat in the house that could fit on her head was a touch too big for her and kept slipping over her eyes. (Not good.)

So I got out all the worsted-weight or thicker blends of acrylic and wool that I could find, and had DD1 choose two colours, in preparation for a double-knit hat. DD1 requested a horizontal stripe pattern.

The bad news is that I'm still fiddling with getting the number of stitches right for the cast-on. The good news is that I found her hat.

So this project is on hold indefinitely. Hell, I ain't doing non-Schedule double-knit if I don't have to!

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