I have not done much knitting lately. This shocks me a bit but I just haven’t been up to it. Not the knitting part but the holding of multiple instructions in my head, things like following a chart and shaping at the same time or centering a pattern by dividing pattern repeats, even working out […]
Tag: Hats
This is Rosie. Well, a bag of Rosie’s fibre. Rosie is an alpaca who with her brother and mother live with my parents in country Victoria. Alpacas originate in the Peruvian Andes and were beloved of the Ancient Incas. According to The Fleece and Fibre Source Book, the quality of alpaca fibre declined after the […]
It is getting cooler in Melbourne and tis the season for woolly hats again, especially for very new people. This is a version of my Pineapple Stacks Hat for a newborn. I used same cast on and pattern repeats as for the baby size but one less vertical pattern repeat. Newborns lie down a lot. […]
I am proud to announce the release of Pineapple Stacks Hat as a downloadable pattern that can be purchased from Needle and Spindle Designs Ravelry Store for AUD $ 4.00. You don’t have to be a member of Ravelry to purchase a pattern, you can do so as a guest and the PDF will be […]
Our children seem to loose sunhats like I loose pins, frequently and to my great irritation. So we visited our local charity shop to find a quick replacement. We didn’t find a sunhat but I did find a very warm beanie. Not really useful right now but surely will be soon. I call it the […]
Meet the third item I submitted for the Wool Show this year…the Pineapple Stacks Hat. It may look familiar to you in this form. It is the hat I made in Somerset, UK last year that got left on a tram in Vienna I think. I made this one bigger, no roll up and decreased […]
In between the grocery shopping and kinder pickup, I managed to catch the penultimate day of Artisan Book’s 13th Annual Beanie Exhibition. Even though many of the beanies had already been sold and gone off to new homes by the time of my visit, it was still fabulous. You can see images from previous exhibitions […]
Just finished in time for the coldest bits of our adventure – I have called it Pineapple for now. I had wanted to make a teazle shape with twisted stitches but on mass like this and in this particular colour, it looks overwhelmingly pineapplish to me. It came into being when our dearest girl refused […]
