'til they're freezing, then they want one of those fuzzy mohair hats. I must have made this hat 6 years ago. Basically you start with 12 stitches, increase until you have the size you want, knit until it's almost twice as deep as you want, then decrease until down to 12. Here's what it looks like when it's finished. The beauty is that it's four layers of mohair over your ears. I usually don't wear hats, but it's been so freaking cold that I pulled this out. That's when Laura decided it was now COOL! Luckily I had some purple/teal/navy variegated mohair so I went to work. I won't have quite enough, but I can finish it off with black, since it will be just the last few inches and it will be inside. Fast knitting, but working on 16" circulars is hard on my wrists. Too much tension, I guess.
We had an inch or so of snow this morning. After grading all last night and this morning, I'm heading into school to enter my midterms. The call is for 4-8" tomorrow night, then frozen rain and sleet for Monday. SNOW DAY! I just hope it comes late enough for me to get to spinning tomorrow. Dodie (the hostess) has promised to give me some advice and a peak at her bead stash! I'm taking the Fire Mountain catalogue and a bunch of post-it flags to mark everything I need. Last I heard the storm wasn't supposed to start until 5-6 PM so that should give me time.
Hope the snow holds off, but you still get a snow day :)
ReplyDeleteI like the Scantrons in the background! That's a nifty hat; I might try one for Joe, but not mohair. He'd whine about the itchy.
ReplyDeleteAh, yesm scantrons - can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em (especially during midterms!)
ReplyDeleteWhat a Great hat! I have some mohair here I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with. Now I know. Stay warm :-)
ReplyDeleteIsn't that hat what EZ called a dubblemossa? Or something like that?
ReplyDeleteIf I had some mohair I might make one for me also.