Fall wonders

Fall is well under way here, and so is the fall knitting.

I have completed three hats (four with the brown Rib-a-Roni I made last December) for Seafarer's Boxes for the Christmas at Sea program. 

 

Here are three of the hats - a Ribbed Beanie for Any Head in olive Falk, and a blue and a brown Rib a Roni hat.

The Ribbed Beanie for Any Head is a pattern by Dancing Geek that I found on Ravelry.  I particularly like the grafted closing in the center of the hat, as it leaves no gaps.

 

The hat does seem to fit on a large range of "heads", going around the narrow pumpkin stem in the first picture, and over a large crystal pillar candle holder in the second picture.  I liked the first one enough that I decided to make a second.

 

I used a cable cast on for the first hat, and a long tail for the second.  Either works fine for this pattern.  The second hat I knit 1/2 inch longer before starting the decreases - I expect it can get pretty cold at sea, and a well-covered ear might be desirable.  Plus I had enough yarn to make the hat a little longer.  The color is best in the first picture (no surprise there, with actual sunlight).

 

I also finished my Lace Ladders scarf, made out of Colinette Jitterbug in Slate that I purchased at Yarns 2 Ewe a while back.  I used one skein, and knit three repeats of the pattern, to get more length with the smaller skein than the pattern called for.

 

 

This was vacation knitting this summer; and Kendra knit one also - she finished knitting hers first, but I blocked mine before she did.  I did have problems with the yarn - a total of 3 breaks in the yarn, and 6 other places where some of the plies were broken, as in this picture.  Rather frustrating, but I absolutely loved the colors in the yarn, and how they changed, so I couldn't give up on the project.  And the splices aren't noticeable.

 

I blocked the scarf firmly; the blocked length was 1/4" shorter than eight feet, and I blocked the scallops to 5 inches between each scallop, with a width of about 7 1/2 inches.  Now the scarf has been relaxed, and worn once, it is 92 inches long, and about 6 1/2-7 inches wide.

 

So fall knitting is officially done - back to other projects. 

 

 

Comments

[Mom]

The lace ladders scarf is fantastic-- doesn't show up real well in the pictures until the blocking photo on your guest room bed-the scarecrow seems to diminish its beauty--but--well done. And the knit caps are great--only wonder what they would do to my hairdo??? Guess its a good thing I am not a sailor!