Stephilocks was a determined girl and after reading a book about knitting, decided to knit a fair isle hat for her nephew.
The first hat she knit with Wool Gatto from Lana Gatto.
It was, sadly, too small.
For the second hat, she decided to use the yarn specified in the pattern. She bought Baby Ull (in 2007) and then she cast on 200 stitches. This should have given her a size between the 22" and 23" inches, like the pattern said. But Stephilocks was a foolish girl and decided to knit the fair isle on needles that were .25mm bigger than what the pattern said to use.
Stephilocks knit and knit and knit on the second hat. She ate porridge of questionable temperature, then she knit some more.
She sat in chairs of varying degrees of comfort while she knit and knit and knit.
She slept in a bed that was just her size and then she got up and knit some more.
Then Stephilocks tried on this hat:
Stephilocks then put down her knitting and fixed herself a good, stiff drink.
The end.
poor Stephilocks! Maybe you should just tell your nephew that three bears ate his hat!
ReplyDelete(it is very sharp lookin' though ... is it very much too big? Could it become a tea cozy or a purse or bag of some sort (or anything else) ... it is too cool to be a UFO ... or worse, returned to the frog pond.
On the plus side...if you know any other children of varied size you have presents for them. Already. Clever knitter you.
ReplyDeleteI would have gone for the stiff drink quite some time ago. Is the 2nd one too big? Does it fit Mr. Happy's head?
ReplyDeleteI was going to make some sort of swatching crack, but that would be cruel at this point.
ReplyDeleteThere's always felting...and if you keep up with the stiff drinks, you just might have a serendipitous moment (don't all fairy tales?) wherein you find that it really does look better when it's shrunken and matted.
ReplyDeleteVery cute anecdote Stephilocks. Beautiful knitting too. Sad it doesn't fit.
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