We have a great KAL on our Ravelry site. Each month we will knit a different hat pattern. We are still looking for volunteers to lead KAL's throughout the year. No experience necessary. Just pick a pattern and invite our members to knit along with you. Easy Peasy!!! Check Ravelry to sign up.
I have passed the midway point in my quest to knit 100 different hats from 100 different patterns. The month of December was chaotic and hectic and I was not sure I was going to make it. Somehow my knitting brain (that thinks I can do amazing things in no time at all) seeped into the rest of my life! I planned and hosted a Christmas at home in California and then flew to London with my husband and sons to meet my daughter for another Christmas. No problem, I can pull off two Christmas's in two countries. And all that extra time to knit on the airplanes, I can make even more gifts than I had planned! I had to finally admit that my plans were too ambitious and I needed to scale back.
It is funny that even though I scaled other things back, I was able to meet all my knitting goals (sometimes only by minutes)! Maybe being confined on airplanes for long periods of time with nothing to do helped.
My hat goal was to finish #50 before the end of the year. I had posted a picture last month of #50. That hat still isn't finished, but two other hats skipped in front of it. They are both watch cap patterns and very similar, so it was interesting to knit one right after the other.
Both are great patterns and easy to knit. The length was determined more by the amount of yarn and time I had than exactly what the pattern called for. In both cases, I was sure that they were long enough and tested them others to be sure. I would happily knit either pattern again and they will be my "go-to" patterns for watch caps. I used the same yarn for both hats, Cascade 220 superwash. Lorne's Hat was knit on size 4 needles and Sandoval Hat was on size 6 needles. Lorne's hat was tighter, more dense and probably a little warmer. Sandoval Hat was wonderfully squishy, stretchy and soft.
One pattern was Sandoval Hat by Robyn Devine (#50)
The other pattern is Lorne's Hat by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee #51
After all the chaos, I came down with a horrible case of the stomach flu right after I returned home. I am so lucky that I could recuperate at home in my own bed! But now I'm a little behind on my 2014 hat knitting.
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