After my experience with the Swallowtail Shawl (thank you for the lovely comments), I realized that babies have been born, and I have been remiss in my gifting for them. A friend of mine gave birth to a little girl at the beginning of October...I can't remember the last time I made anything for a girl! So I needed something, quick...last minute...knitted... So naturally I turned to LMKG, this little hat is great! A quick easy knit and supremely satisfying when you weave in the ends. Because the baby is in Florida, I figured cotton was key, so I used the specified yarn (if you haven't used the 1824 cotton, I highly recommend it, it's scrumptious...for cotton. I think the hat took me 5 hours, and that was only because the i-cord ribbon took so long and I checked the internet to find corrections that I didn't feel like figuring out on my own...gotta love the internet--why reinvent the wheel?
Children's Cotton Hat
Pattern: from Joelle Hoverson's Last Minute Knitted Gifts, with corrections courtesy of Alison
Yarn: Mission Falls 1824 Cotton in Coral
Size: the middle size for a baby--kind of big, but she'll grow into it
Needles: Bamboo Circular, US 6; Susan Bates Aluminum dpn's, US 6
Modifications: Just encorporated Alison's corrections
This is a super easy pattern, once you are aware of the corrections you need to make for the larger sizes. For whatever reason, I didn't read through the pattern and just started knitting. Very silly, when I know that the book has errata all over the place... but it's pretty obvious when you get to the yarnovers to make the holes for the ribbon. This is a cute pattern and it knits up ridiculously fast. Which is perfect when you need a last minute knitted gift!
Totally unrelated to the hat and knitting, books...so I haven't changed my "look what I am reading" section for a while, though I have been reading other things. I found the True Story of Hansel and Gretel somewhat depressing but a rewarding read, all the same. It was enlightening to read about the Holocaust from the perspective of children(all be it a fictionalized account).
And then there was Sarah Waters' Night Watch...What a waste of my time. I usually LOVE Waters' books, I have always been a fan of her understanding of relationships and her attention to historical detail; but, perhaps it was the attention to historical detail that had me snoozing through this book. I just couldn't take it, and because I can't just not read a book that I have started, of course I slogged through it. If you like historical fiction, you might enjoy this book. If you like historical fiction that moves past the pace of a trickle of maple syrup, this book is probably not for you. 1940s London has never been so dull for me...and I love historical fiction and I am something of an Anglophile...I just found the book a bore which surprised me since, as I said, I am a fan...
Knitting continues on the Seamless Hybrid, just a bunch of stockinette still, so nothing uber-facinating to flash. Finishing up Hedera, for Lacevember this time (you know, since Socktober was such a success for me); I am also casting on for the Shetland Triangle Shawl in Wrap Style, for myself...because I am worth it. And then there is the Christmas gift knitting...