Autumn Hat
Finished
October 11, 2014
December 19, 2014

Autumn Hat

Project info
Falling Blocks by Alasdair Post-Quinn
Knitting
HatBeanie, Toque
100 pair stiches
Needles & yarn
US 5 - 3.75 mm
Cascade Yarns ® Cascade 220® Heathers
308 yards in stash
0.6 skeins = 132.0 yards (120.7 meters), 60 grams
4853
Orange
Needles in the Haymarket
August 30, 2014
Plymouth Yarn Worsted Merino Superwash Solids
268 yards in stash
0.77 skeins = 167.9 yards (153.5 meters), 77 grams
12310
Brown
Needles in the Haymarket
August 30, 2014
Universal Yarn Deluxe Worsted
286 yards in stash
0.7 skeins = 154.0 yards (140.8 meters), 70 grams
13/108
Purple
Needles in the Haymarket
August 30, 2014
Notes

TL;DR use DK or light worsted yarn. Regular worsted did not give me gauge at any needle size. You can use large needles with small pattern to make a mediumish hat, though, with regular worsted. The hand holding 2 colors requires untwisting now and then. Check Google for how to do a SSP, it is funky.


Read through pattern. Seems straightforward enough. Casting on. Thinking of doing Portuguese due to 3 colors on same line.

Cast on 120 as in directions. Switched to Portuguese / around-the-neck for 3 color work. Flipping all yarns front and back as needed, then knitting and purling as needed. Seems to be working? Will be able to tell in a few rounds if the tails are going to hide the way they should.

Tan is on left shoulder, purple and orange on right shoulder. Now with all the stitching not sure I am being consistent in carrying yarn underneath like I would in normal colorwork.

10/14/2014
Scrapping Portuguese. Orange and purple in left continental, right tan lever. Practicing flat. Can only use Norwegian purl every other row if 2 colors. Seems like my two lines on left keep twisting. If you don’t interlock them as if catching a float seems impossible to not have the two lines twist around each other. What the flip.

Going to practice the pattern for the swatch for a bit. Need to check rows.

Nov 24 2014
Officially hibernating. Working a shawl exclusively ATM. Swatching on size 4 for gauge swatch.

Nov 30 2014
Washed swatch. Three sections in size 5, 4, 3 needle. Switched colors between each needle size.

I can get 6 stitches to the inch in rows / height but unwashed only 5 stitches to the inch lengthwise. Need 5.5. Or may need to do math to see if adding a pAttern repeat will get a hat size I need since height won’t be off. Just need width to work.

Praying washing magically shrinks it a bit to get 5.5.

Going with size 3 needles. Hat should be around 24’’. Best I can do and keep the row gauge at 6 stitches.

Okay…too big. His head is 23.5 and yeah no negative ease is a problem. Size 5 at 4.5 stitches an inch 100 stitches is 22’’ which is snug but better than loose, I suppose. The height is going to be a smidge off. Gah. Maths.

I tried size 2 for shits and grins on the swatch and it didn’t increase stitch count so I’m at the point of changing yarn or altering pattern and you can’t alter this pattern so…

Dec 4
On line 4 of second--third? Attempt. 100 pairs on size 5. If this comes in at 5 stitches instead of 4.5 I will owe my husband a different hat cause it will fit me. These yarns + this pattern do not play well together. I am thinking the pattern yarn must be a light worsted / DK.

I’m already considering this in more feminine colors, but my husband is getting a flipping hat, damn it.

Dec 7 made it to line five. It’s been a pain in the butt but we are making progress. I keep having to re adjust the yarn feed in the left hand because it doesn’t feed at an even rate between the two colors. That and untwist which is apparently unavoidable from my reading.

As far as color dominance is concerned I can’t really see a dominant color as of yet.

Dec 8 line 11. Trying to speed up. Maybe I can make Christmas.

Dec 9 line 22 achieved. Just realized I have to repeat chart 1 before moving to chart two. Holy hell! I need to book it!

Dec 12 line 17 of 2nd pass of chart 1. Committed to 5 lines daily, give or take 2 days. 30 minutes per line.

Dec 13 chart 1 completed twice. Ready to move on to chart 2.

Dec 14 finger strain setting in. May have to take tomorrow off. Did do 5 lines of chart 2 today. 5 lines x6 days= Done. I’ve got a few days wiggle, but need time to block the darn thing.

Dec 15 first decreases done. Refer to first page of chart for how to read decrease notation then refer to notes for how to do the left and right decreases.

I had to google slipslippurl. I was deeply confused as to how to purl through the back loop. You really have to reorient the needle to the back of the work and come in from behind which is not natural when purling.

I also broke through the callus on my index finger on my right hand. It has a crack along the fingerprint lines. Band aid knitting it is. I don’t normally use my my finger to touch the point, but somehow in this project I found myself doing this to scootch the stiches forward and was using my finger as a break to ensure they didn’t slide off. a This might be a side effect of using traveling loop, I’m not sure.

Dec 19 Done. Wish I had done a jogless trick for the cast on but otherwise pretty pleased. A few loose stitches I don’t expect blocking will fix and trying to tease didn’t help. Don’t ignore the half knot on the cinching instructions.

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  • Originally queued: August 30, 2014
  • Project created: October 11, 2014
  • Finished: December 19, 2014
  • Updated: December 23, 2014
  • Progress updates: 8 updates