Blueness

Blue Hat, Purl Side

At long last, the hat and scarf pair are finished! Instead of doing a series of 10 single increases, as I’d done with the yellow hats, I went with 5 double-increases. I used a simple yarn-over, so that it’d come out lacy like this, and then broke the line when I was close to the width I needed, adding a series spaced out in the middle of the open spaces, to give me a butterfly-like effect towards the edges. I followed this up with about 10 rows of herringbone, and finished with a single row of plain knit & a single bindoff.

Blue Hat, Knit Side

As you can see from the knit side, the last row of knit & then the bindoff gives a bit of a frill to the edge … not what was intended, but it works well enough, and is fairly subtle. I’m going to have to find a different bindoff for herringbone, as it’d be nice to have a plain bindoff option for those things which don’t really need the lettuce-edged effect.

Scarf, closeup

To go with the hat, I knit up a scarf. I used a two stitch selvage, coupled with paired decreases & a double-increase, to keep with the pattern of the hat. You get a good idea of how narrow the scarf is when you see it up close; it was knit on US size 6 needles.

Scarf, zoomed out a bit.

This’s after I’ve pulled the pins out, so the edges have pulled in quite a bit. I maybe should’ve gone with a different selvage for the edges, as they really want to curl, even after blocking. But, the edges aren’t what it’s about, so I suppose it doesn’t matter all that much.

Scarf, way out, no end in sight!

And, it just keeps going and going and going…. It’s about 6 feet long, to make up for some of the narrowness. The pattern is:

• Cast on 15 stitches
• Knit 1 row
• Purl 1 row
• *
• Odd Rows: Sl1, K1, K2TogTBL, K3, YO, K1, YO, K3, K2Tog, K2
• Even Rows: Sl1, K1, Purl 11, K2
• *
• Sl1, K1, Purl 11, K2
• Sl1, K14
• Sl1, K1, Purl 11, K2
• Bind off

Hat and Scarf, finished

The finished pair! The scarf took longer, by far, for some reason. I guess that, yes, it does have more stitches … but it just seems so much smaller when you look at it!

The set’s being worn right now … with the purl side out, as is her propensity. Sigh. The request was for a hat which didn’t have frills, and would simply hug her head.

Sometimes I think that we need to move to a colder clime, simply so that the knitting will have a longer wear time. Speaking of which, I’m told that the Anemone Hat has settled in happily with our little friend in Portland, and is being dragged around as a clutch-purse when other hats need to be worn … and when it can’t be worn on top of or beneath said other hats.

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