Slouchy Hat
My art of the day consists of the ever increasing slouchiness of this hat.
The hat went with me to work, and got bigger at lunch.
not slouchy yet
The hat appeared again after work and got a little bigger. The hat went with me to choir practice (dress rehearsal for our first concert of the season), and during the breaks got a little bigger. As it gets bigger and bigger, each row gets longer and longer, so it seems like progress is slow. It is WAY faster than knitting socks though. Some people might be wondering why I am knitting on four needles rather than one circular needle. At this point I’d prefer to knit this hat on circular needles, but my needles are currently being occupied with a baby sweater that is on hiatus. I may dig them out because there are a lot of stitches at this point, and I don’t really enjoy losing stitches off the ends of my DPNs. Circulars are also quieter to knit with.
getting slouchy
I love the concentric waves of colour, and the merino is a dream to knit with. The only challenge is capturing the true essence of it in a photograph. The true colours fall somewhere between those shown in the two photos above.
Tomorrow the hat may join me at an Inuit Throat Singing workshop. It will be a very well cultured hat indeed!
Tags: art every day, dyeing, knitting, one day beret, spinning
