The Knitter Who Mistook Her Sock For A Hat

Last night I hat a look at the Sock Yarn Sunhat I'd set aside as a portable project and realised I'd been messing up the increases in the brim. Clearly I needed to concentrate on those increases, which made it a bad travel project, so I may as well finish it. I ripped back and recrocheted the brim. I'd also found that the colour changes of the self-striping yarn were making one side of the brim dark and the other mainly light, so after cutting and reattaching the yarn a few times I decided this hat would look better with a narrow brim.

This morning I used my new head for the first time:



It's so much better than my old head. I took a replacement photo for the last sunhat I knit, to put into Ravelry:



The Sock Yarn Sunhat didn't take much yarn. Possibly less than a single sock. And I now have one full and two half balls left of this particular cotton/merino yarn (Regia Surf). It makes a nice hat, and I'm thinking the yarn would also make nice string shopping bags, too. This is good, because I found it a bit ropey and lacking in elasticity for socks.

I started Sockless Summer in order to slow the filling of the sock drawer a little, but it's nudged me into learning methods I'd been too hesitant to try (mitred squares) and find uses for think yarn I'd never thought of before.

My other Sockless Summer wip, the Mitre Vest, is going slowly, but I'm still enjoying knitting up the little mitre squares. I'm on the fourth row of squares now. I'll be adding shaping for the diamond in the centre back soon. In a day or two. The anticipation is killing me.



And in my other knitting bag... is endless stocking stitch. I'm getting through it by allocating myself ten rows a day.



At 170 stitches around, I suspect there'll be as much knitting in this as there would be for a vest. And then there's always the chance that the felting won't go exactly to plan. Especially as I only have a front loader.

Which is probably why I suddenly have a strong itch to do some weaving.