Thinking—caps!

As we traveled, and since I was a passenger, I could knit! Simple thing to knit is a hat!

So, as the miles flew by, my hands were engaged in think less knitting on my famous cast on 80 stitches, join in round and knit!  Just knit! 

There are so many small balls of yarn in the stash bin—take two together and go. I tried something little different on this one. Didn’t show up well with yarn—will be better with plain color.

It is a simple 1/1 cable pattern. Row 1: 1/1 LC, k2, repeat that pattern until end of round. Row 2: k all stitches. Row 3: k2, 1/1 RC, repeat that pattern until end of round. Row 4: k all stitches.

Only!  I forgot on the 3rd row to do 1/1 RC! It didn’t look good to my eyes—just went on with plain knit!

Plain knit! 

This one I changed the yarns when one ran out.  Still have several little bits left—at least, no two hats will look the same!

The blue hat on top is one strand hand spun silk and one of hand-spun wool—I did several rows of knit, then switched to 3 rows of purl—don’t really like to purl, but it does add texture to the hat. 

Another completely hand-spun hat—one of silk (learned to take single silk strands and ply with two other silks to get a thicken yarn) and two ply wool.  Like the way it is knitting.  

Here is neat way to continue with 80 stitches.  This hat is Penta Cap by Woolly Wormhead—one of my favorite hat designers.  She thinks outside of the box. 

I have several other ideas to do with the “plain” knit hats—will fiddle with patterns—sure do like the mind less knitting though!