Tychus, sort of.

A Christmas hat!

Pattern: Knitty's Tychus, sort of. It's shorter, so no fold-up, smaller sections, and only four of them so that it isn't for giants only. And I did wrap the stitches at the ends of the short rows. The holes were a little big. This was a really fast hat once I finished knitting and ripping out half a hat made according to the original pattern.
Yarn: Black Paton's wool, heathery foresty green Lion Brand Wool-Ease. Both are doubled up. The hat is wonderfully squishy because of the doubledness and the garter stitch.
Needles: size 9 Denises. It's short rows and then seamed, so "straight" ones. Denises are too floppy to be straight.

Action shot:

Me, holding camera: Hey, put this on.
Lump On Couch: mmrph.
Me: Beautiful.

boo xmas knitting

So I'm trying to knit Knitty's Tychus and it's about to be 30 in. around. Nobody's head is that big. Ok, so I didn't swatch or anything, but really. Make it smaller! How? I was thinking of making only 4 pointy segment things instead of 5, which would make it 24" which is a reasonable size, but it will most definitely be pointy. And then not get worn, because pointy hats are not manly. They are elfy. High school boys don't want to be elfy. Poo. Time to see if anyone in the vast internet has downsized this thing successfully.

I'll post pictures later. Ok.

imadeablogimadeablog!

Ooh, i have a headache now from trying to get my header thing in the template. But it works. Everything's great.

I guess soon I'll post things I've been knitting. Orrr, everything I've ever knit? That's nuts. Everything important that I've ever knit, or things that I'm proud of or something. I'd like to use this here blog as a record for myself of things I've knit, what yarns, needle size blah blah blah. The internet is more fun than a notebook or something.

Buut, the things I just finished moments ago (more I guess, many moments of headache-inducing code nonsense followed) are gifts, so not postable now. And I'm planning on knitting a whole entire other gift something, or at least like half of it, tomorrow when I'm not at work.
And adding a link to this thing to my website.
And picking up a package that got mailed to the wrong place. I didn't do it.
And making cookies.
But not until I've slept really late.
ooh, sleep....