Non-knitters may not understand, but I am inordinately proud of this baby-sized hat. I taught myself to knit Continental so I could do Fair Isle with one color in each hand. After a few minutes practice, I cast on in two colors of leftover sock yarn, not expecting them to look good together, and not expecting to actually like my first attempt. I wasn’t even planning to finish it, honestly! The crafting gods were smiling upon me: Not only did the colors look all autumny and wonderful together, but my tension seems just fine. It doesn’t pucker at all.
It’s Tam C, unblocked, and I don’t know if it’s the blocking or the gauge but it’s definitely not tam-shaped.
4 comments:
Very pretty, I like the colors!
Having just knit a pair of fair isle leg warmers 'single handed' - I may just venture into Continental territory.
After all, I can crochet 'the correct way', not that I usually do, so it can't be that difficult.
The hat looks great.
Wow, that's cute! I'm going to make you teach me to knit left-handed when I'm there, k?
Heather
looks great, perhaps I should try to learn knitting with both hands too. Just continental with both strands on the left hand, I totally hate fair isle
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