Every Love Hat 3 - Finished!

I actually finished up the knitting back in January, but I didn’t sew it up because I was thinking about making a video of that.  I ended up not doing that, and I finally sewed it this past Thursday.

I still have one more skein of the Dewy DK that was paired with the multi-colored green hat, but I don’t know where it is.  If I find it I may make another one of these hats with it.  This skein was paired with this one.

But I just couldn’t find a pattern that worked for the two colors together.

Pattern: Every Love Hat by Dolly Laishram 

Yarn:  Expression Fiber Arts Dewy DK in Adventure

Needle:  US 6 (4.0 mm)

Every Love Hat 2 - Cast on!

So these hats are kind of addictive to knit.  They are fun, not too hard, and I enjoy the Brioche stitch.  Plus what else can I do with a single crazy variegated skein of DK weight yarn.  After finishing up my classy pink one I cast on this one (this past Sunday 9 January).  Same yarn, different color set.

Pattern:  Every Love Hat by Dolly Laishram

Yarn:  Expression Fiber Arts Dewy DK in Exploration

Needle:  US 6 (4.0 mm)

Every Love Hat - Finished!

I finished this hat up almost a week ago.  The assembly was a bit of a topological challenge.  You have to first attach the bound off end of the long piece to the bound off stitches of the cap.  I did this with regular mattress stitch.  But you have to make sure that you have the orientation correct.  There are pictures in the pattern to help with that.  After pondering the pictures I figured it out.  But then I had to figure out the back and the attachment of the long piece to the cap.

For the back, which is the cast on edge, I gathered it with a running stitch and then just stitched it together to join from the wrong side with a whip stitch.  Then I figured out where the half way point was on the long piece and flipped things so that the right side of the long piece and the right side of the cap were facing each other.  Then I just did a running stitch though the slipped edge stitches to join, pulling things snug and then easing them out again a little before I tied everything off and wove in the ends.  I started the join at the center back and worked towards the front on both sides, stopping when it seemed the right spot to stop to allow the front to do what the front needs to do.

Pattern:  Every Love Hat by Dolly Laishram

Yarn:  Expression Fiber Arts Dewy DK in Adventure

Needle:  US 6 (4.0 mm)

 

Every Love Hat - Cast On!

My husband and I walk almost every day in our neighborhood, and it has been a little cold lately so I decided I needed a hat to keep my ears warm.  I have been wearing a cowl on some days, and yesterday my husband wore one of the cowls that I have knit to keep his ears warm - I had on a hooded coat that went down to my knees.  Anyway, yesterday afternoon I searched my pattern library for hat patterns and spotted this one.  I then checked my stash and decided that I had the perfect yarn for it, so I cast it on while listening to a meeting.  The yarn is from Expression Fiber Arts and was just one of those random stash acquisitions (it is only one skein!).  Well, actually it has a companion skein that is speckled/variegated that I will probably use to make another hat, as this pattern is quite fun and a bit addictive.  It uses a cool Brioche stitch and knits up very quickly (at least so far).  There are increases and decreases to shape the hat.  Some assembly is required.

Pattern:  Every Love Hat by Dolly Laishram

Yarn:  Expression Fiber Arts Dewy DK in Adventure

Needle:  US 6 (4.0 mm)