Just dropped these off at the post office:
The larger is the first one I knit, on 4mm. Well, I do knit a little loose! I went down to 3.75mm for the second. Then I started a child’s version, and that’s when I realised that I’d used the child’s sizing for the depth of ribbing on the first two. Probably just as well, or the first would have been enormous!
The second one fits fine – plenty of room – but I remembered that I’d used an entire ball of orange for the ribbing. No way would I get even an child’s hat done with what I had left. So I reduced the ribbing even more, and only managed to finish the hat by decreasing on every round halfway to the crown. But even with these reductions, the hat still fits me!
They’re strangely addictive, these hats. I think it’s because I don’t get to knit with orange often, since it doesn’t suit me. They’re also quick projects to do – a good break from larger ones. I’m out of orange now, though. Unfortunately the yarn I bought in anticipation of a CFA hat pattern is in yellow and white, and the pattern turned out to be for red and white. I could buy more…
But I don’t think I’ll be knitting more hats any time soon. My left shoulder muscles have been playing up off and on since I wrenched them in January, and at the moment I have some sort of virusy thing that’s like a flu (but with no visible symptoms like a snotty nose to encourage sympathy from anyone!) and my muscles, particulary the left shoulder, are all achey. I can knit for only about an hour at the most before I’m hurting too much.
This is driving me a little batty. I’ve been getting my knitting (and crochet) fix by browsing patterns, matching them up with yarn in my stash, and plotting yarn purchases. Not ordering yarn, though. I’ve been good. Though I passed a gadzillion yarn stores on the way home from a funeral yesterday I didn’t succumb.
But then the beau suggested we visit some friends in the country on Friday, and drop into the Bendigo Woollen Mills on the way. And it just happens that some of the patterns I’ve lined up require Bendy yarn purchases…
Goodbye yarn diet. Hope you have a nice time, wherever you go. Send me a postcard, won’t you?
I’ve been plagued with pain off and on for about 2 years. Started with shoulder pain, migrated down the left arm just above and below the elbow, then the two middle fingers on the left hand started going numb. Turned out I had a bulging disc in my neck. The combination of looking down for all those hours knitting along with blogging on a laptop was causing me loads of problems. My Doctors instructed me to knit no more than an hour at a time, with at least hour long breaks doing something different as long as it wasn’t on the computer. I got the most relief from 3 acupuncture treatments and daily yoga. Maybe you need to take a break back to the loom.