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<\/p>\nI finished the hat I’ve been knitting. It’s really warm, though I won’t know that for absolutely certain until I try wearing it outdoors on a cold, windy day. The half-ribby hat I made last year is good most of the time, but two weeks ago it didn’t quite cut it in the wind.<\/p>\n
This one has two layers over my ears, whereas the other has just one, and this one is heavier yarn to boot. I started with Bartlett Mills fisherman yarn, aran weight, for the outside of the cuff, and switched to the Jo Sharp Silk Road Aran Tweed wool-silk-cashmere blend (that I blithely picked up and took to the checkout counter without looking at the price! oof) for the inside. And wow is that soft! It doesn’t have great stitch definition, but I know the hat is cabled, and I don’t really care if that’s not obvious from a distance. I have lots of the Jo Sharp left over from two balls I bought (though I did get well into the second) and I’m a little sorry I didn’t make the whole thing out of it. I started with 108 stitches on number 7 needles, cast on with the Maine cast-on from um, is it Robin Hansen’s book Favorite Mittens<\/u>. Because I haven’t started anything except those Fair Isle mittens in a while, and (oh no) I forgot how to cast on, and that was the only book I had handy with instructions for casting on. Of course, I could have looked at the internet, but I went for a book first.
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I finished the hat I’ve been knitting. It’s really warm, though I won’t know that for absolutely certain until I try wearing it outdoors on a cold, windy day. The half-ribby hat I made last year is good most of the time, but two weeks ago it didn’t quite cut it in the wind. This … <\/p>\n