{"id":34,"date":"2011-09-26T06:08:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T06:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maryellensmakingitup.wordpress.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2012-11-26T05:10:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T05:10:54","slug":"pointy-knit-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryellensmakingitup.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Pointy Knit Caps"},"content":{"rendered":"
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4 Poiny Knit Caps<\/p><\/div>\n

Last week I came across a pattern that had my hands itching to grab some yarn and find my needles.\u00a0 Because of work I didn’t get to do that until Saturday and by the time the day was done I had finished 4 hats. While I followed the pattern as written for the first hat, half way through the second one I was already figuring how to do things differently and by the time I started the third hat I had rewritten the pattern to my preferences in my head.<\/p>\n

I found the original as a free pattern at www.littlehomeblessings.com and this particular is called “The Scrappy Gnome Hat Pattern”<\/p>\n

I made my first had up in under 2 hours. Each of the rest took less than that once I had what I preferred all in one place. I haven’t written up my version yet, but at some point I will have a pattern section to my blog. For now I will just show what I got done on Saturday with more to follow.<\/p>\n

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Red, White, and Blue My First Poiny Cap<\/p><\/div>\n

The original pattern called for using 1 strand of bulky weight yarn along with 1 strand of worsted weight yarn, but when I first started I wasn’t finding my bulky yarn stash so I improvised using 3 strands of worsted. It works for gauge, but be aware when you do that it creates a fabric that is stiffer than using just the 2 strands called for\u00a0 due to the extra twisting that occurs as you work the yarn.<\/p>\n

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My Second Pointy Cap Using a Varigated Yarn<\/p><\/div>\n

When I knit the second cap I found some of my bulky yarn stash and paired it with a variegated worsted weight yarn so I didn’t have to change yarns to get color variations and create interest. (I consider myself to be a somewhat lazy knitter, preferring the yarn and technique do the work so I don’t have to.) By this point I had found my 16 inch circular size 13 needles to do the first portion of knitting.<\/p>\n

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My Third Pointy Cap in Pink and Purple Boucle<\/p><\/div>\n

By my third attempt I had changed some things around in the working of the pattern as well as found some boucle left over from another project. I paired it up with some raspberry worsted as set off around and around. For some reason I find going around in circles addicting. (I have a simple rolled brim cap I’ve been doing for years just because I can do most of it on circular needles and I do not have to think or pay attention until I start to decrease. It’s one of my default patterns and you’ll probably be introduced to it at a later date).<\/p>\n

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My Fourth Pointy Cap is Pink Striped<\/p><\/div>\n

My last cap of the evening was done using a heathered pink bulky weight yarn and then alternating a deep rose worsted with an off white worsted. I knew that I wouldn’t have enough of the rose to do the whole thing, so I alternated between them, carrying the unused yarn up as I worked so I could minimize the finishing work.<\/p>\n

So there you have it. Instead of cleaning house, I spent Saturday playing with yarn and knitting hats. In looking at these pictures I think that next time I should probably do a some practicing in picture taking, but I just wanted to share these before they got given away or lost in the shuffle.<\/p>\n

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