knitting kitchen

In 2007, I knit Mark a sweater based on sweaters I had seen in the Baseball Hall of Fame.  He was playing in a vintage base ball league and I thought it would be nice to make one in his team’s colors. I dyed the yarn the appropriate shade and knit like crazy.

Unfortunately, I didn’t take many pictures of the sweater (which he does still have and wears often). Here is one:

Since this picture was taken, afterthought pockets were put in and the buttons were changed to Indian Head Nickles turned into buttons (we bought them at the flea market).

Watching the Olympics, I was struck by the outfits the American athletes wore.  Did you see this? There’s no big polo pony on mine, but I ripped off paid homage to the BHOF first.

In some crazy pay back scheme, I knit a copy of RL’s Opening Ceremony Knit Hat.  Helena Bristow, owner of Clever Knits, has the pattern up on Ravelry for free already.  I knew from looking at the pattern that it was going to run big so I didn’t use Cascade 220 as suggested. I used St. Denis Nordique (isn’t that appropriate?), and smaller needles, then cast on last night.

I made some other changes to the pattern. I knit the lining in cotton so it isn’t scratchy. I made a purled hem for a neat fold line.

Detail of lining and hem

I deleted a couple of rows of white so it wasn’t so long (it still is). I knit the white on blue pattern all the way around in case I can’t find a flag patch. And I changed the decreases at the top so they frame the pattern with double decreases and are neat and tidy.  The Nordique is lovely yarn and even though I knit the hat with 4s and 6s, I you can still see the blue stranded behind the white in some lighting. Ah well.

I once knit M a Dale of Norway ski hat and when I saw the Olympic hat online, it looked similar in size. I’m considering making the hat again using 2.5mm and 3.5mm as I did with that hat. I also used Heilo and was all excited to knit the hat again in that yarn. When I hauled it out of my stash (of course I had the right colors and amounts?!) I realized the yarn is almost indistinguishable from Noridque.

I have been busy making other hats for no apparent reason. Here are a couple:

Also a wimple

and some socks

Needless to say, the coffee table is taking a hit