Well it’s About Time
You know that moment on a hat? The moment where all you need to do is keep going around and around and around as you’ve been doing for a while now? And there’s nothing else to be done, you just have to put in the stitches? Even if you’ve lost all will to live (or at least to knit)? Yeah, that’s where I was on this one. It was not leading to much in the way of forward momentum. At least it wasn’t until I noticed how inescapably nifty the inside of the hat looks. See?
This discovery has left me wondering what precisely would happen if you played with the stitches a bit so as to have this be the outside from the start. Now all I want to do is knit it (and a few experimental cousins), and instead I have to be a responsible adult and do all sorts of other stuff instead.
And yes, for those of you following along at home, that is a tiny dusting of snow out there. It’s the first one of the season and I find myself giving it dirty looks and wanting to say the sort of arch things your most cantankerous teacher would say whenever someone walked in late to class.
I’m in love with the stitch you’re developing!
I’m finding myself taken with it too. It really shouldn’t be this entertaining, and yet I’m fairly hopelessly smitten.
We had snow when I woke up this morning! (I live in Indy.) I find myself saying things like, “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!” over and over again. I’m sure my coworkers aren’t tired of it AT ALL.
Right, and don’t forget to whistle it as much as possible. I have it on good authority that people *love* it if you whistle for them. Now, they might be shy about how much they love it, and they might even pretend they hate it and beg you to stop. Don’t believe them. They’re secretly enjoying it.
Well, HELLOOOOO, Mr. Snow. Glad you decided to join us today. he heee!
Or “I assume your mother’s doing better.”
“Whuuuu?”
“For I can think of no reason for you to be so late other than that you have been at your aged mother’s bedside.”
“Uhhhhhh”
“Sit down, Ms. White, an turn to page 387.”
I’m smitten with this stitch. I have several skeins of yarn that would be perfect for this design (so much that I de-lurked to comment…that’s saying something!) Thanks for sharing your process!
Yay, so glad you’re liking it and that the stash had the right yarns for the job.
I have had a couple of stitches that I ended up liking the wrong side as much as if not better than the right side. The solution I came up with was to simply turn the whole thing inside out. Wrap and turn like you are working a short row and just knit it inside out.
Yeah, for this one I’m going to keep going with the current outside facing out for now. It’s easier to conceptualize (and hence to work) with that side out. But I will be playing around with stitches like this that are pretty on both sides but look nothing alike. I find it rather endearing.
Hunh. I really like the inside pattern, by why doesn’t the twisted stitch ribbing show up the same; shouldn’t it?
So, it’s not true twisted ribbing (k1tbl, p1tbl), it’s really k1tbl, p1. So when you see that on the back side, the knits (the stitches that were the purls on the front) aren’t twisted.
Love that hat. Great stitches on it. Looks like a fun knit.
Yup, way way more amusing than it has any right to be.