Adventures in Knit Hats... for Me!

Welcome to another installment of Tabi's Creating Adventures! Today we're looking at hats! 

I had some yarn I had bought years ago, when we lived in Washington state, and finally decided to use it. Both of these yarns were novelty handmade yarns and I only bought one skein of each, so that limited me on what I could make. With that in mind, and a new knit stitch pattern book, I worked up these beauties.

These were fun little projects. In the end, I decided to keep them for myself. After all, I did buy the yarn for me.

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Tabitha

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Adventures with a Baby Blanket

Welcome back to one more Adventure post! Today's feature is a patchwork crochet baby blanket.

This is one of the projects that was given to me partially started, though I don't remember who gave it to me. Some of the blocks were made, some yarn was provided (the yarn that matched the finished blocks), and I supplemented a few blocks (and a little bit of edging) to finish out this 25 block square. Laying out the colors from the yarn provided helped me to determine what I need to supplement. The pink squares came from yarn I had used to make a different baby blanket, two of the variegated squares in the corners came from my remnants stash, and I believe I added the yellow from my baby yarn stash to bring out the edging.

 

 

The experiment on this piece (because you all know how much I enjoy experimenting) is the texture stitches in the middle of each side. I think they are a lovely addition. I am finding that I like texture accents. There have been several things I have made that incorporate texture things, I think my favorite is a hidden cross scarf. Maybe I will experiment with a piecewise texture motif blanket sometime.

I hope you enjoyed this post! Stay tuned for more!

 

 

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Tabitha

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Adventures in Hats (Featuring Mani the Manniquin)

Mani the Maniquin has made his return! Mani was gifted to me by a cosmetologist friend when we lived in Washington state. At the time, I was making school pride warmth sets which included a hat, a scarf, and a pair of fingerless mitts. Mani came in quite handy as I displayed these sets as well as other hats of different designs. If you go back on my Facebook page (link at the bottom) you can find more pictures of Mani modeling.

This particular hat was also a stash-buster project. I had this yarn left from another project and felt it was about right for a hat. The only thing left to decide was what design to use. After digging out my inspiration and patterns box, I found my favorite hat pattern book, In All Caps by The Crochet Dude. (I used several of the patterns from that book with different color combinations for the school pride warmth sets. It's also a great book for beginners.)

I especially like how the colors stacked and created a diagonal stripe. Also, the white border is a fun finishing touch I added to tie into the pom pom (because I didn't have enough yarn to make a full pom pom without adding something... oops!). Overall, it turned out much nicer than I expected.

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Tabitha

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Adventures in Socks

 

 

These lovely socks are a recent completion.  My  husband and I found the yarn at a local yarn store in Washington state many moons ago.  I selected the yarn based on the blue color, not realizing that there was a beautiful purple-pink variation hidden inside.  As an added bonus, the pattern on the socks shows up surprisingly well.  This pattern is definitely a repeatable offense. 

 

I used about half the yarn from the two skeins, so that leaves opportunity for the same colors in another project. Now all I have to do is figure out what I want to do with the rest.  

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Tabitha

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