Tea and Cakes

Most of my knitting at the moment is for presents, so I can’t blog about it, but a little while ago I ended up in a bit of a hat phase.

I left my favourite warm hat in a taxi, and needed another. I’d been ashamed for a while that the hat I wore was store bought, and I really had no excuse for that.

So, I cast on for the Amelia Earhart Aviators Cap. It was fun to knit, quick and interesting, and the Rowan Wool Cotton gave good stitch definition.

There was a problem though. It just didn’t suit me.

So, with the weather getting colder by the day, I grabbed some wool/alpaca from the stash and some needles, and knocked this one up:

I love it. It’s cute and it’s cosy and warm. It’s my Pikmin hat, after the Gamecube game of a few years ago. Just missing the leaf.

This was leading up to halloween, and also to the first birthday of a friend’s daughter. I just had an urge that wouldn’t go away to make a pumpkin hat, and This is Knit had the perfect shades of the lovely Debbie Bliss Rialto 4 ply in stock. It just had to be.

There are plenty of patterns out there, but I just made it up as I went along, and it ended up looking exactly like the picture in my head, which was nice.

In case the hats for Innocent smoothie bottles, 2 hats for me and one to give away weren’t enough, I did make another hat around this time. A hat that’s taunting me regularly now, and keeps on giving me a very good lesson. But that’s for another post.