Knitting

I picked up some blue-grey bamboo/acrylic blend at the destash sale at the start of the month, but didn't want to commit to a whole garment in it, so made a hat!!! A very basic hat, with the simplest pattern of all, but it was a new adventure for me, and I followed the pattern and everything. With a pompom.

I'm glad I only did a hat because it wasn't nice to knit with - both slippery and sticky at the same time. Yuck. I also bought some lemon yellow acrylic because it was incredibly cheap, and a full cone of pale green mohair for $5, so decided to knit another hat with both fibres together.

I'd never heard of holding two yarns together before I started cruising through ravelry but apparently it's really common, and gives you a nice fuzzy yarn from the mohair but stronger and not as scratchy. I didn't think it would be any good at all but it was (a) easy to do and (b) lovely when knitted up. It even made the two quite ugly colours look reasonably pretty! Astonishing. 

The yarn was a bit thinner so I should have added more stitches so the hat is a bit smaller. Not that I needed even one beanie! I will see if either of the children have cold heads. 

The cat was not too thrilled by our photo session. This is back to the time of the year where the sun buckets in the kitchen door ... she lies there sunning her fat tummy and occasionally a tiny lizard wanders in and she can stalk it. Cat Heaven.