Hat & Scarf!
I made a hat. I made a scarf. They do not match at all.First, the hat.
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I made this hat for a dear friend from work. He'd had dreads for two months and then cut them off. This was my attempt to give them back.
The yarn is mystery yarn that a friend sent me, though my money's on Red Heart TLC. The pattern is based on this longstocking cap. I just split the brim after finishing the shaping and worked the pattern and followed the pattern. I skipped some rows because there's only so much DPNs I can take. All in all, I think it turned out well.
The scarf is matching my spiffy new hat:
The scarf is a feather and fan out of a bulky Berrocco cotton/acryllic mix. It went by in about 5 minutes. I worked it in two parts because I wanted to get the cool scalloped edges on both sides. The downside is there's an odd pucker where I grafted the two together.
Cool thing about this- I thought I'd finished one piece on a wrong side row and one on a right side row. As it turns out, I was wrong.
As it also turns out, futzing with kitchener stitch, I realized that by doing kitchener stitch incorrectly, I could create a purl seam instead of a knit seam (that's why kitchener stitch seams look so smooth- you're basically creating a new knit row between the two sets of stitches). So, by doing it badly, I saved myself having to add a knit row somewhere!
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