Knitted Hat

My first hat class last Tuesday was amazing.  My friend and I are the only two people in the class.  It's really great to have so much one on one time with our instructor.  The class is about designing hats.  After a bit of talk about what our possibilities were, we jumped into figuring out how we want our hat.  Since there are only two of us in the class, I figured this was the perfect time to tackle the ever scary cable knitting.  I've always thought I could live life fully without learning this skill, but ultimately I decided to give it a try.  Since this is new to me and the class is ultimately on making a hat, I decided to just have one cable in my hat.  Once my design was set, I knitted a swatch.  Usually I forgo this important step because I want to dive right into my project.  A swatch was necessary because  based on how many stitches it yielded per inch would determine my pattern for my head.  By using a few provided calculations and the results of my swatch, I had a custom hat patten just for me by the end of the first class .  Yes, math was involved, but it wasn't too complicated.

My homework for the week was to knit the body of the hat.  I only had to knit 4.5 inches since my hat will have a brim that is added later.  Tomorrow we will figure out the math to start decreasing stitches to finish the hat.

Here is my cable.  It really wasn't as scary as I thought it would be.  In fact, I think I see lots of cables in my future. 

Comments

[danny]

I'm just envious that you are doing math in order to have fun. You are really amazing! You were always more of a numbers girl than I ever could be! :)

[connie]

I have cable envy now.....