So much knitting and crocheting, but so little blogging! Here is a hat I made for my dad using the technique of thrumming. I took a mitten class at Metaphor Yarns, but once you know the technique, it can be applied to anything.
Here’s the inside, showing all the bits of wool roving which makes it so warm.
The pattern is made up out of my head with a fold-up brim for extra warmth. The grey is Cascade 220.
The report from Eastern Mass. is that it is warm. Mission Accomplished.
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Here is a collection of hats I made for the local Warm the Children.
The boys’ school has a “mitten tree” every year to collect warm items. I can’t believe how many of the items this year (other than mine) were handmade!
This is Cascade 200 Superwash Handpaint from Metaphor Yarns (random pattern out of my head).
This is an earflap hat made of Wool-Ease, a free pattern on the Lion Brand Yarn site.
Here’s another Wool-Ease hat, this one made out of “Thick & Quick” left over from my mom’s sweater (another random pattern).
The third random hat is made from Wool of the Andes Bulky.
This isn’t a great picture, but the hat is quite cute. It is made from Luisa Harding Kashmir Aran using the pattern A Hat Fit for a Fella (AKA Men’s Cabled Hat). This is one of my favorite yarns, very soft and sqooshy and extrememly warm.
In case you are wondering, the tags are care tags. All are machine washable except the Wool of the Andes hat.
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I made this hat for my favorite little monkey, to keep his head warm this winter:
The pattern was the Sock Monkey Earflap hat from Trappings and Trinkets.
The brown and cream yarn was Cascade 220 Superwash; the red is Minnow Merino Superwash.
The only modification I made was to crochet round eyes and sew them on instead of using buttons.
This was a fun and fast knit and I may just have to make another one in my size!
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