I’ve been doing hats lately. They’re a good way to test out some design theories that don’t take too long.

This one is a one-skein hat (exactly one skein, 14 inches to spare) of KnitPicks Wool of the Andes.

Overall, I’m pretty pleased. However, I need to make one more pattern repeat to fit my fat head with all the cabling. You can see in the photo where I’m wearing it that it still pulls too much across the cables. I’ll add a pattern repeat and then go down a needle size for the “ribbing” at the bottom.

So that’s in the plan. But I also want to do a sweater, for me. So I’m designing one. From (pretty much) scratch. It’s interesting so far. I’ll be casting on shortly. I’ll have ~12 hours on the train coming up, so that should give me some good time to work on it.

That’s it for now. See ya soon!

~The Gnome