Comments on: Amelia takes a turn at modelling, and I receive an award

By: Road Trip – Lunamoth

Road Trip – Lunamoth — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:02:39 +0000

[...] yarn (can’t remember whether it’s llama or alpaca), and will be making another hat like Amelia’s. I’ll write down what I do this time, so that I can share the [...]

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:08:50 +0000

I’m glad not every head is named Judy!

By: Lunamoth

Lunamoth — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:16:27 +0000

Thanks, Robin. The cable came from a Barbara Walker book, and the rest was just knit-as-you-go. Should Elisabeth kindly offer me more yarn, I will make another hat and keep notes, so I can share the pattern. Someone of your knitterly skill can probably wing this one, anyhow — dk yarn, a temporary cast on, a cable pattern that’s about 4″ wide, knit for approximately 20 inches, then grafted together into a circle. I picked up 61 stitches around the top of the circle and knit through the back of the loop for twisted stitches, which I liked the look of. I decreased down to 5 stitches over the course of about 3.5″ of knitting: decrease 1 st, k 1 st, dec 1 st at every “corner” — I was using four dpns to knit on. Pulled the yarn through the last 5 sts, and voila.

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:20:35 +0000

I love the hat- is there a pattern for it?

By: Deb Keirce

Deb Keirce — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:25:54 +0000

I like your self portrait! How clever of you to paint the eyes!! I’m also impressed at your knitting skills. I don’t have the patience to knit or crochet. I’m impressed by people who do!

By: AutumnLeaves

AutumnLeaves — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:19:26 +0000

Gorgeous hat, Nicole! Amelia is a GREAT model, though a bit aloof. Maybe she is just shy?? Did you see my comment that we have very similar hair?

By: Elisabeth

Elisabeth — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:58:29 +0000

By the way Amelia looks very good. She must have had a great summer. Did I ever mention that my Siwss cats moms name was Amelia?

By: Elisabeth

Elisabeth — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:56:51 +0000

It looks wonderful! It will go well with the mittens I am make right now. Can I take you under contract to knit hats? LOL. I probably have to kick myself and get into cable knitting.. not really my thing though..