I’ve gotten so comfortable with the SHAPED CROWN BEANIE PATTERN that I can enjoy listening to my Spotify playlist (current favorite is Diana Krall, especially her duet album with Tony Bennett!) via my phone and airpods while making these hats. Fairisle would also work for those 30 rows. Next, I’d like to experiment with skipstitch. In my adaptation of the pattern there are 30 rows to experiment with patterning - I’ve used thread lace, tuck, and the dragonfly stitch I learned from a Diana Sullivan youtube.
Prior to getting back to my beloved Brother KH-260, I sewed some skullcaps for me and my sister using knit fabrics, which worked well. Thus, we wear hats everyday, during all waking hours. With the salons in our area shutdown combined with our fear of covid exposure, we’re letting our greys grow out. We are too afraid to dye our hair on our own. My sister and I are in our 60s and have greying roots.
I have been using the SHAPED CROWN BEANIE pattern. The bare-bones instructions of KNIT IT NOW provides me lots of space for creativity. As with cooking recipes, I can't follow directions without morphing them into my idea of what I envision the final product to be. I love the open-ended possibilities that KNIT IT NOW offers. That helped me take the KNIT IT NOW plunge. When I looked into paying by paypal, there was an option to divide the cost into 4 $35 payments. I had breezed by KNIT IT NOW before, and used its freebies, but the cost had kept me away. After the gift-making crunch in December I decided to get back to machine knitting. I ended up getting into other things - ecoprinting, shibori, macrame, felting, and during this pandemic, sewing masks for family and friends. When I retired in 2017, I thought I could finally have the time to make cardigans and jackets on my machine, using cool colors and textures. Over the years even after studying the great youtubes that are available, taken private lessons, bought and gone through several books and dvds, got Garment Designer, joined an MK knitters group, and gone to great workshops (Newtons!), aside from making a v-neck vest using my knitleader, I’ve been confined to making rectangles - scarves, ponchos, fingerless gloves. I’ve had my Brother KH-260 bulky machine for over 10 years.
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