Finished Knitting the Michele Hat

Hello Friends,

I hope you are doing well. It was the first day of Spring here in Canada yesterday and we still have a bit of snow on the ground, but it has been so much warmer and brighter out later in the day. I am so looking forward to it being warmer out now. It has been good that we have had Winter because there is a lot of knitting inspiration, but I think it has been here long enough now. I can find some lighter knitting patterns.

I am finished knitting the Michele hat by Sarah Punderson.  It was a great pattern and a fun knit. I seem to always feel like knitting hats around this time of the year, right around the end of winter. I used the Fleece Artist yarn in the colorway of Blue Face Leicester. I enjoyed working with the yarn, it is soft and light.

Front

Side

Back

Pattern: Michele by Sarah Punderson

I don't have updates on reading that are different from Sunday's Post, I am still reading A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult and Quiet by Susan Cain. Both are very interesting and I am enjoying them.

Joining along with Frontier Dreams for Crafting On and As Kat Knits for Unwraveled Wednesday. And also late to the party, added this post to Ginny's Yarn Along link up for March.

Thank you for visiting my blog today and hope you enjoy the rest of your day!

Finished Knitting Barley Light Beanie

Hello Friends,

I hope you are all doing well. I had a wonderful Easter weekend spending time with family. I got a lot of knitting done on my Barley Light beanie as well and I am happy to say I am done!  It was a fun knit and I was so excited to finally knit a beanie. I like the fit although I was thinking it was large when it was done. I had knitted the longest length because I wanted more of a slouch which I definitely got but I have to play around with it to make it look right and slouchy instead of just sticking up or out.

Details:
Pattern: Barley Light by Tin Can Knits from Ravelry
Yarn: Patons Kroy Socks yarn in the colorway Flax (I used one full skein and a bit of the second I purchased to complete the hat.)
Needles: double-pointed needles sizes US 2.75 mm and US 3.25 mm


Joining along with Frontier Dreams for Crafting On ,As Kat Knits for Unraveled Wednesday, and with Ginny for her monthly Yarn Along on Small Things.

Thank you for visiting my blog today and I hope you have a great day!

Happy Valentine's Day and Finished Knitted Waffle Hat

Hello Friends,

I hope you are doing well. Happy Valentine's Day!  This weekend was fun celebrating my Mom's birthday.  I enjoyed spending a few days with my family and just chatting and spending time together.

I knitted a hat for my Mom in January as a gift for her birthday using the Bulky Waffle Hat pattern by Linda Suda. I loved this pattern and really like how the waffle pattern adds texture to the hat. To make the hat, I used the Patons Classic Wool Bulky yarn in the color green and size US 10 6 mm needles. I was happy she liked it!

My sister purchased a few of these helium balloons to put around the dining room to celebrate our Mom's birthday and the cats were very interested and scared of them. |It was entertaining to watch them inspect the balloons and the ribbon of the balloon. Roo (the ginger cat) was scared of the balloon and ran away from it when it got too close. Moo (black and white cat) was just interested and curious about the balloons, then eventually attacked the ribbon and was chewing on it.

Moo playing with the balloon

Roo investigating the balloon

I didn't get to reading that much this weekend as I had thought I am still reading Wild by Cheryl strayed. I will read more this week to finish it. Last week, I started listening to Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee on audiobook while I was knitting. I enjoyed reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee when I was in high school, so I was interested in listening to the sequel. I really like it so far.

I usually make some cute hearts for the holiday and like to knit with pink around this time.  But this year, I decided to show you some of the hearts I knitted in past years and have also included the blog post links if you would like to make any of these and are interested in the patterns.

Valentine Heart Pouch: link to Knitted Valentine Heart Pouch

Valentine heart: link to Happy Valentine's Day

Some knitting stitches that are fun to learn and use in some Valentine's day projects that were featured in some Stitchy Saturday posts:

Learn to knit the lace hearts knit stitch pattern: link to the post: Stitchy Saturday: Lace Hearts Knit Stitch Pattern

Learn to knit the heart vine pattern: link to the post: Stitchy Saturday Heart Vine Lace Panel Stitch

Joining along this week with Frontier Dreams for Crafting On, As Kat Knits for Unraveled Wednesday, and Small Things with Ginny for Yarn Along.

Thank you for visiting the blog and I hope that you enjoy the day with loved ones!

Have a good day!

Soft Knitted Teal Hat

Hi Friends,

I hope you are all doing well on this huge day for Americans and the world with Donald Trump being Inaugurated. I watched the footage this morning and it was hard to see the Obamas go, they have done so many good things for people over the course of Barak Obama's eight year presidency. We can only hope that good things are ahead of us as well.
I finished my hat I have been knitting using Patons Roving yarn. I loved working with this yarn it is so soft and I love the color.  I added a pom pom at the end because I thought it would really complete the hat, and it looks so cute with it I am glad that I did.  I am entering the hat in Linda's January 2017 Stash-Buster link party and I am excited to share the hat with everyone. I love entering these link ups because I can see more of what you all work on and I can share what I work on with more of you.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and I hope you have a great weekend!

 

One Knitted Ribbed Hat

Hello friends,

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! I can't believe it's over already! I just finished knitting a ribbed stitch hat over the weekend and looking forward to wearing it when it gets colder. I have also started knitting some socks as a gift for my mom for Christmas which I will post about later this week! below are some photos of the hat I wanted to share with you.

A photo of myself wearing the hat 

Pattern: the pattern is very simple 

• Cast on 70 stitches on magic loop needles( or more depending on the size of your head, needles, and yarn), divide stitches between the two needles 
• knit two stitches, then purl two stitches all the way around to create the ribbed stitch
• Once you knit up to the crown of your head, begin to decrease 
• Decide how many decreases you would like to make on the decreasing rows (example: I knit 7 then knit together two, then repeated all around, then knit/purl a row, then the next row I knit 6 then knit together ...etc...)
• Keep to the knitting and purling of the ribbed stitch pattern. On my first attempt I knit to decrease the top and it looked odd with garter stitch instead of ribbed stitch! 
• Once you end up with 6 or 7 stitches, pull the yarn through with a darning needles and then tie a knot and weave in the strand under the top of the hat. 

Then you are finished! hope the pattern wasn't too confusing I made it up from making hats for quite some time and following other's patterns.

Thank you for visiting! I hope you all have a good night and have a great week :)

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Knitted Cozy Hat

Hi Friends,

I have just completed a purple hat made from Loops and Threads cozy wool yesterday.  I started knitting the hat in September, but then it got really busy with school and it got put aside. There was only decreasing to do to complete the hat, so it was a quick finish last night.  Here it is below! And I used the same pattern as a previous post with a few changes. There is ribbed stitch which is knit two, purl two at the bottom, then it is knitting through the rest of the hat. 

Pattern:

1. Cast on 2 stitches for every inch of the person's head or depends on your gauge (my head was 22 inches around so I casted on 44 stitches)

2. K2, p2 all the way around until ribbing is the length you desire.

3. K all the way around until hat measures 6" - 7" then start to decrease

4. To decrease: divide your hat up into groups of 8 stitches and put markers.  Decrease by knitting two stitches together in each group once you reach the marker and then knit the rest of the stitches.

 5. Do this until you arrive at 4 stitches and cut your yarn about 6" then pull the yarn through the stitches with a crochet hook or darning needle then weave the remaining yarn down through the top of the hat.

As always thank you for visiting! 
Happy Holidays!

Before you leave...

Knitted hat complete!

Hello Friends!

Countdown to Christmas: 17 days

I am so happy today because I finished knitting the hat for my boyfriend for Christmas this morning!  I used Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick and Quick wool in the black color.  I used size 9 mm needles in the circular needles form.  I casted on 48 stitches because he was 22" and it was two stitches for every inch so I did a couple inches extra for wiggle room.

The finished hat! 

 Pattern:
Cast on 2 stitches for every inch of the person's head.
Then k2, p2 all the way around until ribbing is the length you want.
K all the way around until hat measures 6" - 7" then start to decrease
to decrease divide your hat up into groups of 8 stitches and put markers.  Decrease by knitting two stitches together a two stitches to the marker and knit the rest of the stitches.  Do this until you arrive at 4 stitches and cut your yarn about 6" then pull the yarn through the stitches with a crochet hook or needle then weave the remaining yarn down through the top of the hat.

Ribbed stitches at the bottom then knit all the way up

Me wearing the hat to show how it looks on!

Hope he likes it!
I wish you all a great day.

Gray and white hat completed and mittens soon to match ;)

Hello friends,

It has been a chilly weekend and it is definitely feeling like fall is in the air now!  I always  feel excited to feel that cold air because it means that it is time to pull out the hats, mittens, and scarves you've knitted up for yourself and that others have knitted you.  I am speaking completely bias right now that everyone should own a handmade hat, mittens, and scarf... well i think everyone should! there is something about wearing something that you have knitted or someone you know has knitted.  It makes you feel like you are getting a hug every time you put it on.  You think "Wow someone knitted this for me, they care about me being warm".  Well I hope that everyone I have knitted for has this feeling when they wear something I've knitted them because that would be pretty special.
Just this past Friday I completed a hat made from "thick and quick" Lion Brand wool. I am kind of obsessed with this yarn, it's so soft and really is "quick" to knit. I love the colors together :)  the wool was already solid gray then would switch to a gray and white stripe so I can't really take the credit for switching yarns ;)  I am going to start knitting mittens today that match the hat,  I still haven't knitted a set and would love to have a matching hat and mittens set that I have knitted up :)
So here are a few pictures of the finished project! I will also be posting to Pinterest I am going to be keeping it updated if you also want to check that out and see some things I've knitted up or some ideas and other interests of mine.  I spent some of the morning updating Pinterest.  I think it's really addicting once you start pinning and liking photos there are so many great ideas out there!

completed hat 10/18/2013

Side view of hat :)

Take care and have a lovely day :)

First knitted project of the year :)

Hello Friends,

I finished a hat last night that I have been knitting for the past week!  I am so excited to be done!  It is the second hat that I have knitted. The first one was a black hat for my dad a couple years ago and it had been knitted as a Christmas gift.  This one was for myself to practice my skill more.  I will be challenging myself a little more this year, to learn how to become a more skilled knitter :)  

picture of the hat in progress...

Completed hat!  12/01/2013

Me modeling the hat :P

 Thank you for visiting ! let me know what you think, I will be knitting more hats to get better.  I really enjoyed knitting another hat, it has been awhile :P


Have a great day!