I can knit!
Nov. 19th, 2009 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
norsegirlIt's official, at 2:30 this morning I finished my first ever kitting project. I am not apparently the fastest knitter in the world as one little hat occupied all my spare time for a week. And there are a few tiny mistakes in it, which is to be expected I think.
The pattern is an interesting one. The skulls and crossbones are well executed, but the other X and line shaped blobs I think are supposed to be swords (the theme of the hat was pirates) but they didn't look much like swords either in the chart or in the final product. I do like that it is reversible, so you get 2 looks for your efforts.
Neither Hobby Lobby nor Michaels had the exact yarn recommended in the pattern, so I had to take a guess at what I figured would be closest and was pleasantly surprised when it fit.
If I were to attempt this pattern again in the future (and I might since I was only able to get charcoal, not black, and I might want something other than red) I would get rid of anything that wasn't a skull and crossbones and I would add 2 more lines so it went a little further over my ears. I'm also toying with the idea of making a scaled-down one for Georgia. Overall though I think I'd like to call this one a success.
Yesterday, to reward my near-completion of this project, I picked up yarn for my next 2 projects and a stash of wonderfully soft alpaca blend (it's blended with acrylic which is unfortunate, but I'm thinking of making SCA stuff out of it, so being washable is good). I don't have exact plans for the alpaca yet, but I'm about to start on project 2. Yet again I couldn't find the exact yarn requested, so this will be another crap-shoot and hope I guessed correctly. Eventually I should seek out a yarn shop so I can have access to the nicer things not carried by mainstream, big box stores.
And thus begins the "knitting" tag and a whole new fiber arts addiction. As if I needed another one.
The pattern is an interesting one. The skulls and crossbones are well executed, but the other X and line shaped blobs I think are supposed to be swords (the theme of the hat was pirates) but they didn't look much like swords either in the chart or in the final product. I do like that it is reversible, so you get 2 looks for your efforts.
Neither Hobby Lobby nor Michaels had the exact yarn recommended in the pattern, so I had to take a guess at what I figured would be closest and was pleasantly surprised when it fit.
If I were to attempt this pattern again in the future (and I might since I was only able to get charcoal, not black, and I might want something other than red) I would get rid of anything that wasn't a skull and crossbones and I would add 2 more lines so it went a little further over my ears. I'm also toying with the idea of making a scaled-down one for Georgia. Overall though I think I'd like to call this one a success.
Yesterday, to reward my near-completion of this project, I picked up yarn for my next 2 projects and a stash of wonderfully soft alpaca blend (it's blended with acrylic which is unfortunate, but I'm thinking of making SCA stuff out of it, so being washable is good). I don't have exact plans for the alpaca yet, but I'm about to start on project 2. Yet again I couldn't find the exact yarn requested, so this will be another crap-shoot and hope I guessed correctly. Eventually I should seek out a yarn shop so I can have access to the nicer things not carried by mainstream, big box stores.
And thus begins the "knitting" tag and a whole new fiber arts addiction. As if I needed another one.
