I can already tell it's going to be a big hat knitting kind of winter. With a few sweater projects off my needles, I find myself with a stash full of single skeins. I'm doing my very best to resist the temptation to restock it now, because there's a pasture full outside! And I'll get to spinning (and then knitting) all of that very very soon (just as soon as my combs arrive to process the fleece with). In the meantime, afresh new hat is always welcome. And goodness, so portable and handy for knitting on the go, of which there's I do plenty.
I grabbed two balls of yarn that I thought might be the same weight, and a size six circular needle on my way out the door the other day. Then I found myself in a place where I had no reception (to look up a pattern), but with plenty of time to knit. Oh bother, I thought, I can do this myself. I've knit enough hats, haven't I? I cast on 80 stitches and got to work. Though they were just little leftover bits, I do believe the yarn is Fiber Company Terra (a favorite of mine). I wasn't sure - given the lack of pattern, plan or knowledge of just how much yarn I really had - who the hat would belong to in the end. But Harper was the lucky guy, and a very happy guy he was. Though he insisted it required a pom pom on the top, and his sister thankfully obliged in making one. I agree - the pom pom was totally necessary.
And I'm going to have no problem keeping myself busy with that stash and these needles for the short while, as Ezra insisted I make one 'just like it but with green and white, and definitely with a pom pom on top. definitely the pom pom." Harper's been supervising the making, to be certain I get it just exactly like his. Who needs a pattern when I've got help like this? All I need is another pom pom.
