A hat! Not just a hat, a winter hat! Yep, I knit myself a wool hat (and not just any wool, but Shetland wool from Shetland sheep living on Shetland and processed in to yarn there too) in the summer. =)
This pattern is called
Selbu Modern,
and for some reason I always read it as the French "moderne," although I
don't think that's what the designer intended. The hat was my first
stranded (i.e. using two colors at once) project. My tension is a
little wonky in some of the parts that alternated single stitches of
each color, but overall I'm really happy with it. Using two colors
essentially creates a hat of double thickness, this one is
really warm.
The knitting was completed in just under a month, faster than I expected. I knit like a
fiend
while E was napping. The entire hat was knit while he was sleeping - I
think I tried working on it once in the car while Hubbo was driving, but
E needed some distractions, so that didn't last.
Ravelry info is
here.
Doesn't this rose look like it's just peeping out at you from behind the wall? The camera's auto-focus had a really hard time with this one, it wanted to focus either on the wall or the bushes in the background. Luckily I do know how to switch it to manual! Not as easy as you might think, because you have to set both the camera body and the lens to manual focus on our camera.
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