Designing Hats

Since moving to Maine, I've been designing and knitting hats again.  My favorite yarn is fingering weight wool, especially 2/8 Maine Line from JaggerSpun, or Palette from KnitPicks.  The prototypes for a pine cone and tassel hat and a chickadee hat are completed.  Also, a Breast Cancer Awareness hat is finished for a friend who asked for one after looking at my Facebook album.  Now I've begun working on another one of my Spider hats in black, red and gray.  On Wednesday we'll be taking a trip to PA for a few weeks, and I find I want to take along my whole stash of fingering weight wool to knit from.  What painter would travel with only half of her colors?!  Or at the very least, I must go find my colored pencils...

It has been my passion over the winter to knit hats using my stash yarns. Given my stash, most of the hats are FairIsle Tams using fingering weight yarns, explorations in color and design. But now I'm also beginning to use some of my heavier yarns as well.

The hat in this picture was inspired by the dome on our capitol building. I did it in accurate colors first, then changed them out for these colors in the second hat. So fun!

Newest knitting project

Well, I've joined the bloggers!

So what should my very first blog be about? How about my latest knitting project. . .

Tuesday I cast on 384 stitches to knit the "Bicycle Sweater" designed by Lucy Neatby. I bought this sweater kit back in 2004 at Stitches East at the Shelridge Farm booth and it's been patiently waiting in my yarn stash since.

Today I need to get packed for Bicycle Camp at Refreshing Mountain - looking forward to a great weekend chumming with Christian biking friends and their families there. It's supposed to be a really great weekend for weather, too. Yay!

Huge thanks to Hammer Nutrition for all the goodies they sent to give out as door prizes - they support the International Christian Cycling Club very well, and we are grateful.