Thursday, January 3, 2008
Stupid hat.
If you don't knit, many of these terms will be unfamiliar to you. I apologize. I promise to return to my normal language in the next post :-)
This was supposed to be a chemo cap for a child: a donation to the Jan./Feb. Caps for a Cure group. It was great, or so I thought. No tinking. No frogging. I cast on 104 stitches, like the pattern said. I did K2P2 rib, like the pattern said. I knit for 3.5 inches to the decrease, like the pattern said. I followed the pattern, to the best of my knowledge, to a T.
And this stupid thing is so small, it won't even fit my three year old. It looks like a stinkin' yamulkah.
Oy.
I won't even bore you with my complete and total inadequacy in color work. Half of my carried yarn was somehow carried up the outside of the hat. I had to creatively engineer it with a reasonable facsimilie of duplicate stitch to hide it.
Stupid hat.
"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him." Romans 8:28
So, maybe this was God's way of having me make a baby hat instead of child-sized? I had the pattern for both :-Z
As you can see, I'm trying to rationalize the value of this darned hat and find the good in all the time it cost me...
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The colors of the hat are fantastic! There must be a baby out there some where with a cold head who could use it.
ReplyDeleteIt's still cute. Is it small enough for a preemie or newborn hat? You could donate it to Newborns in Need or to your local maternity hospital.
ReplyDeleteI think it's lovely. Donate it to a crisis pregnancy center. They'll love it.
ReplyDeleteThat is the beauty of hats. They will most always fit SOMEONE. Donate it anyway. I'm sure they will find a child that it fits.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't feel comfortable doing that, there is alway Newborns in Need, or something similar.
I love the colors---and like Becky said someone will enjoy it!
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