December 01, 2003
hats, hats, hats
What a beautiful day it is outside! The sun is up and so are my spirits, I just love seeing a clear blue sky. :)
Knitted like crazy this weekend on my Kureyon earwarmer cap hat. Reknitted the top twice and when I finally finished darning the ends, I decide that the hat just isn't working for me. Now why is it that I had such difficulty making this hat!? I go check online about Kureyon yarn and it dawns on me. Noro Kureyon is NOT a worsted weight yarn!!! Oh my goodness, no wonder my hat looks like it was knitted too loosely, no wonder it's not as warm as I had expected it. I didn't really check the fabric the yarn was giving as I was sure it was worsted. I just did a swatch and when I hit gauge, I started knitting away. I even knitted right through the hot pink color I usually take out from the ball, never saw it until I have knitted the whole stripe. All was going well, you know when you can't put down a project and wished the kids could feed themselves 'cause your in the "knitting-zone". LOL! Then I stopped made lunch and picked up the project, that's when all went weird on me.
I sure was bummed out when I learned that I didn't know my yarn like I thought. Sure I could try to change a few numbers to make the pattern work for me but I'm just not into knitting math. It just doesn't interest me at all. So now I have a felted mittens pattern where Kureyon yarn won't do any good either. I have bought the yarn and pattern for that specific reason. It's a tad sad but hey, when I was in Toronto and running around Romni Wools, I thought I was the luckiest knitter in the world! ;)
So after my earwarmer hat not working for me (I will however make another one using good old wool worsted to make another one!). LOL! I wanted to start another hat, like NOW! So I check online and see that a few knitters have joined in a Bucket hat knitalong. Great idea, I thought to myself, I had gone bucket hat crazy when I had my miscarriage, had knitted 4 hats in a row. Maybe it was time to knit a felted hat, to make things easier I simply went on the pattern designer's website to see how much yarn was needed to make a hat. I had printed the pattern previously but just didn't felt like looking for it. LOL! Well the website says how the pattern now has 9 sizes to fit just about anyone under the sun. That's weird the pattern I bought had only 3 sizes, most likely why it never fitted me well, as the size Large of my copy would fit 21" and my own head is 22". I emailed her to see if I could get an update of the previous providing the most info's I could about the transaction I had when I first bought said pattern. It was on august 10th, I remember well as I bought it the day before we left for a week on vacation, hey! silly me even blogged about it. Well less than an hour later I got the news that I should have bought the pattern 50 days later, then I could get the new updated version. 
So I end up with an older version of a pattern that will never fit my head. It's sad as I thought a felted bucket hat would look neat but it just won't happen. This might sound bitchy but it is not, I am disappointed as if I had bought the pattern after Sept. 30, I could get this new version with nine sizes instead of the 3-size copy I have. I do understand that you can't get updates for life after buying a pattern but since this new version has 6 more sizes included I don't believe I should have to buy this same pattern again.
I ended up starting a hat from the latest Weekend Knitting book. Hopefully it'll come out nicely or else I am going to the store a buying a freakin' hat! ROFL! ;) That said, I still have to knit my Kureyon cable scarf but thought a hat would be more practical before knitting a scarf.
Oh and the latest drama happening today is: I found a single white hair sticking out on my head! Oh dear, I'm getting older. 
Chart by Veronik Avery, available at KnitList, modified pretty lamely by moi. ;)
p/s: Thanks to Alison for reminding us that today is World AIDS day!
Enjoy your day,
hugs! :)