September 19th 2007
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Most of my knitting recently has been devoted to knitting the mini hats… it has been a great way for me to use up all the little odds and ends of yarn I have lying around, I have managed to get rid of most of my supply of cotton, cascade wool and various other yarns. I have been getting a little more adventurous with my hats, but compared to some of the hats out there in comparison I am a little amateur. Some of my favourite are Pirate Hats, Innocent Logo Hats, Pacman Ghosts. The hat of the week was even a bridesmaid.
Now that I am done with the hats for a while, I thought I would give knitting scarves ago.
September 10th 2007
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This weekend, I decided to start knitting some mini hats for the Innocent Smoothie Big Knit campaign. For the last two years, I have thought about knitting these little hats, first I was too busy with knitting Christmas presents and last year, I had too much on with the shop.
This year, I thought I should to something positive with my knitting, I found some odd balls of Cascade 220 I had lying around and soon I had three little hats…
To be honest the hardest part of making these was the little pompoms – I remember making them at school, using little circles of card and creating a yarn doughnut, but it got a little fiddly making tiny pom-poms, I ended up having lots of little un-fluffy pom-poms.
I was determined, so I did a quick google search and I found this little tutorial – which is quicker and easier.
I figured this project would be perfect for all those leftovers of sock yarn I had lying around – so I went hunting for them – I knew I had a bag some where with some Opal and Sirdar – but I could not find it eventually, it showed up and hidden in the bag was two – yes two un-used balls of Kid Silk Haze. to be honest, I am not even sure where the second ball came from.
I think it is karma – I spread the love via knitting and the knitting gods are rewarding me!
