Thursday, August 23, 2007

FO! It's been a long, long time...

Do I grin maniacally? Very well, then I grin maniacally, I have knit a damn hat! This is a fast fast project -- I knit it in just over 24 hours, 24 hours during which I slept, worked, prepared three meals and ate four, played Wii Sports for more than an hour, and did two loads of laundry! I need to knit more stuff with worsted weight yarn.

Pattern is the Bzzz Hat for Queen Bees from Stitch 'n Bitch Nation, and I used Araucania Nature Wool in color #37. I loved this yarn for this project because the subtle variations in the yarn give a very organic pattern/texture to the finished hat like a beehive. I guess like a beehive -- I don't think I've ever actually seen a real beehive now that I think about it (I mean I've seen box hives and I've seen hornets' nests but I haven't seen a honeybee nest in the wild, which is unsurprising really given the decline of the European Honeybee in North America over the course of my lifetime).

Anyway! The bee buttons are from the inimitable Windsor Button Shop, where I think they had four or five different types of bee buttons in stock. Check them out up close:


For cute! They're some kind of plastic. Given the extreme feltability of this yarn and the fact that these buttons are plastic and possibly soluble in dry cleaning liquids, this hat is going to be strictly hand wash in cold water only, which I hope is OK with the eventual recipient. If not, oh well, it only took me a day to make it! I will be making another one of these for myself, because look how cute I look in it, I mean really.

8 comments:

jacicita said...

That is ridiculously cute! And yay achievable knitting! I should look into that, in my desert of half-finished sweaters and repeatedly-frogged sock heels :)

Kyle said...

There's nothing like actually finishing something to boost your knitting mojo. I highly recommend it.

naomi said...

That's really cute, especially the bees!

Kyle said...

The bees *are* awesome! They were the best bee buttons in the button store!

Kris said...

Me likey the hatty. But I can't steal it, because you'd totally know it was me.

Kyle said...

Make your own! I've got plenty of yarn left over (but you have to buy your own buttons).

ainsley said...

The hat's cute, but the photo of you is fucking amazing. I'm jealous--I wish I had one of me half as cute!

Kyle said...

Oh, you're sweet! I like the picture, although I wish I wasn't looking over my glasses in it, I hate when I do that.