I have finally — finally! — finished Bodhifox‘s hat. It sat alone and feeling unloved for two weeks. I finished the second earflap at Ceri’s house on Saturday (to where I gratefully escaped from my House of Sick Persons, feeling temporarily better myself: I did my hair! I put makeup on! I left the house! When you’re sick you feel like this will never happen again, so it was a big deal.) I’d have done the i-cord and tassel there too and been finished two days earlier, but I discovered that I hadn’t brought along the tiny remaining ball of bronze yarn. (Argh!)
So this morning, the first thing I did after checking e-mail was to look up the instructions how to knit an i-cord (how beautifully simple, I may knit nothing but i-cords when I need to relax), then make the tassel, and attach the betasselled i-cord to the hat. Et viola (as Fox himself would say)! One Jayne Cobb style hat, done in Ravenclaw colours!
Here it is, perched on my metronome and stuffed with a tote bag, looking slightly wonky:
I’d wanted to line it for warmth, but it’s late enough in winter that I’m just going to send it as-is and let him decide if it needs lining. So now I will pack it up and get it out to the post office in the next couple of days.
Happy Imbolc, Fox!
Now the comments will work, as no one else has. Yeah! Of course, if I need it lined I can do that. No one else has a hat like my hat. Hoot!
Thank you love. Perfect.
It’s certainly unique. It’s very stretchy, too, so I’m not overly worried it won’t fit your head!
It kinda looks like Jane’s hat! Only, you know… cool and stuff… erm.
That’s one cunning hat.
HRH.
That’s one nice hat. Did you reduce stitches at the top or pull it in (what I end up doing). And congrats on getting out of the house over the weekend. Pdaughter had to cancel today because of illness and getting out was exactly what I finally did – bringing HappyBaby to check out work!
I decreased the stitches till I had about seven, then pulled it in. FI I’d been smart I would have started knitting onto DPNs and I’d have been able to get it even smaller, but meh, followed the pattern I had and it worked. I ended up weaving a really long tail in and out at the join, though, in order to fill in the space left after the pull-together, because I wasn’t happy with it.
Very cunning indeed. :)