Monday Knitting

Yup, I did it all in one day. One very, very, very long sleepless day.










Sponsored by the following: History Detectives, Oprah, Spaced, Life of Mars, two episodes of Mystery! (Miss Marple and the Sittaford Mystery), Digging for the Truth, and part of the movie Beau Brummell, which I think I am not going to finish (it was boring).

more pictures follow

This is, of course, another baby bonnet. This time I used Cascade Cotton Rich. I still used the size 4s, but it knit up a little bigger on account of the yarn is thicker.

As you can see, I modified it somewhat: I did four pattern repeats of the feather-and-fan, and then continued in stockinette stitch (with a three garter stitch border). Picking up stitches is a lot easier with garter stitch, I have to say.



I'm particularly proud of the pattern the crown decreases made. In fact, as with the Green Gable, the stitch definition of this yarn is amazing.








Here's a rough approximation of what it would look like on a baby's head. If the baby's head were shaped like a common overturned drinking cup with a bottle of nail polish on top. (I go all out with my models).





I didn't have any ribbon that matched this color (fuschia), so I wondered if I could just cast on extra stitches at the end of the rows to make the ties. Turns out, I totally could!