a hat! made by me! out of yarn!
many knitters will recognize this as one of the hats in the Stich'n'Bitch book...this is my first non-scarf finished project, so I'm pretty excited about it...it's tucked under oddly because 1.) wig heads are way teeny and 2.) that's size 11 yarn and the pattern called for 10 1/2. I have a big head and assumed initially that it wouldn't be too much of a problem, but the thing could have been made for a bear....so I ripped it all out, tried to invent some sort of ratio to adjust the number of stitches and had at it again...it did come out smaller and still worked, so maybe that was ok...math is still a touchy subject with me.
the wig head and the wig are curtousy of my costume-savvy roommate who is conveniently out for the weekend...I like the purple hair because it sort of brings out the cool color flecks in the yarn...it's a tweed yarn (I think tweed might be the only thing that can be both a type of yarn and a weave...and I don't think one has to become or be made from the other...textiles is not really an intuitive industry...) meaning that it has cunks of other colors thrown at it...I think this yarn is 100% wool...it was nice to work with anyway...
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