Growing
I’m loving this more and more the taller it gets. This is three days of knitting. (The rounds are longer than you’d expect. Those cables are rather big and draw in the knitting a fair bit, meaning you need more stitches than you’d think to wrap comfortably around your head). I’m absolutely itching to have it done and have already hatched plans for a set of mitts to match.
But I do feel like I need to mention something. Come here. Right up close. This is important. Listen carefully. Please do not get in touch with me and express your concern that I’ve picked yarn that is ‘too purple for a guy.’ First, I’m not even sure what that would mean, and there is a grave danger that I’ll ask you to explain why, precisely, you think colors and genders match up in a particular way. Second, he picked out the yarn. Third, he’s been watching this hat grow from one day to the next and is well aware of all aspects of it. So really, please don’t do that. It will make me awfully cranky.
Oh, no. Definitely too purple for a guy. No question. Too purple for anyone but ME. Gimme. 😉
Come now, I fully expect you to spin your own. You know, in all your copious free time. I’m sure you’re just looking for something to fill the empty hours…
My thoughts followed Jennigma exactly. Perhaps anyone that suggested that was trying to talk you into it for themselves………..but clearly, that’s not the way to your knitterly heart. (I like side A out with side B showing at the upturned brim if that’s an option.)
When I asked the husband to choose a contrasting color for the heel of his first pair of hand knit socks, he reached for the purple, so I think nothing of purple for a guy.
I’ve been toying with the idea of a folded brim. The Boy doesn’t like that on his hats, but I think I will at least take a few pictures to show what the fabric looks like if you fold it back, just in case anyone wants to make a nice deep hat.
I love this yarn, and it looks smashing in that stitch pattern. I remain grateful that my partner loves color. He should also be grateful–he wouldn’t have nearly as many handknits if he didn’t. There’s only so much boring I’m willing to knit.
My feelings exactly. The Boy’s socks are at least as colorful as mine. Some are different colors than what I’d choose for myself (he likes yellow and purple more than I do), but very few are what I’d consider bland.
And pretty much all the gray knit socks in this house are mine!
Personally, I love side B, and I don’t love anyone who insists on assigning genders to colors.
It’s pretty yarn, if it suits his colouring though and he likes it then it’s a good choice. My husband looks amazing in purple and also dark forest green. I think I need to make him a purple something sometime soon.
Oh, gosh, I just LOVE side B! I mean, side A is gorgeous too, but just look at side B! I am throughly smitten. 🙂
Ohhhh but your Boy has AMAZING taste in purples, would you consider loaning him out for purple-choosing for fellow purple-lovers? My own boy-creature mostly only likes green. Plain. Green. Dark green. Plain dark green. It’s dreadful.