On and off my needles tonight. 

Pattern – Cobblestones – free on Ravelry

Needles – US 8

Yarn – KnitPicks Swish – superwash, worsted weight – colorway is Wine Tasting Tonal

I modified the pattern for a child by casting on 84 stitches and knit 5 inches before starting the decreases. 

And the back…

This one was quick!

Pattern – KitKat Hat – a free pattern from Ravelry

Needle size – US 6

Yarn – Caron Cupcakes – colorway Candy Buttons

I modified this, making it smaller to fit a child. I cast on 80 stitches, knit about 2 and a 1/2 inches in ribbing, and bound off at about 6 and 1/2 inches. 

Hat #2 is finished (you can find the link to the pattern and the details in yesterday’s post).  

The back…

Now I need to find patterns for 2 more. Off to Ravelry to browse!

Thank you Keith for passing along the cold the kids gave you last week! I’ve felt it coming on the last couple days and it hit me hard last night. Luckily, I still made progress on my knitting goals. 

Pattern – St Mungo’s simple hat  

Needles – US 6

Yarn – Caron Cupcakes in the Candy Buttons colorway

Finn was happy to cuddle up and keep me company all afternoon. 

You’ve got to love how fast hats are to knit …. even with having to switch to the dreaded double pointed needles for the decreases. One of these days I’m going to “reteach” myself how to knit in circles on two circular needles. I used to do it all the time when I was knitting socks but I haven’t knit any socks in years. 

I was afraid this would be too small since I forgot to switch to size 8 needles but since it fits hat head, I’m sure it won’t be too small for the toddler it’s intended for. 

And the back ….

Hat knitting season that is … I hope to get at least 2 done but maybe 4 for gifts … and maybe I’ll just keep knitting hats for a while and use up some of this yarn!

• Pattern – Barley – free on Ravelry
• Needles – pattern calls for US 6 and US 8 but I forgot to switch so this one will use US 6 only
• Yarn – Cascade 220 superwash 

I finished my Yowza scarf on Thursday night so I wanted to cast on something easy that I could work on in the car on our trip to GA. I found this booklet at a yarn shop in Maine and it has a number of small baby blankets. 

I’d bought yarn for one of them too although I hadn’t decided which one I’d do first (there are 16 easy patterns all using just 4 balls of Encore Worsted each)… it looks like I planned to do this one because I’m using the same color yarn. It’s a 6 row pattern and 4 of the rows are plain knit!

The pattern is called Textured Bricks

Yarn is Encore Worsted

Needle size is US 8