Today has been a fun day — less stress than many previous days (we are kitchen remodeling while trying to keep up with the holidays and being a reasonably healthy pregnant lady). I spent much of the morning surfing the net and munching on various breakfast treats, then we went to the park with the dogs for a short walkabout, then spent the rest of the afternoon listening to podcasts and working on the latest project, a hat for Andy. This is the Koolhaus pattern by brooklyntweed and I am making it so that Andy can wear it when he goes to Punk Rock Bowling in a few weeks.
Project Specs: (Ravelry project link)
- Pattern: Koolhaus Hat by Jared Flood (brooklyntweed)
- Yarn: Araucania Nature Wool in color 14 (deep walnutty brown)
- Needles: US 7 and 8 DPs
- Mods: So, far only one mod (due to practicality but it might work out for the best): I CO and knit the ribbing with US 7s instead of US 6s since I only have very long US 6 circulars and no US 6 DPs. I am also knitting the whole hat using DPs since that’s what’s available at the moment.
After doing the first repeat of the lattice chart, I cried uncle and looked up cabling without cable needles. Here you go: http://www.grumperina.com/cables.htm
It’s quite fun now and looking really good. At present moment, I have done two repeats of the lattice chart, but here is a picture of the hat at one repeat:
