My most recently completed FO is still blocking - so let's travel back in time a little bit, to February when I made 4 more minion hats, all by special request:
A Be-do hat for my knitworthy Nurse SIL who works with the police. I have evidence that she wears it, too.
A second hat for my nephew J., who had already outgrown his Xmas one.
He had also asked for an Evil Minion hat for his birthday. What could I do but oblige ?
He told his Mum he'd been ''waiting all my life for this hat''. This boy is the King of Knitworthy.
His Nanny aka my MIL is also knitworthy:
She has said she wants to be buried in it.
Me - I'm burying the thought of more minions. For some reason, I didn't really enjoy the actuality of making these; it was only the fact that such loved ones who were also knitworthy had specifically requested them, and I knew they'd like them.
What with all the gifty knitting I feel like I've been doing this year, I can feel the urge, the siren's call, to make something just for me ....but I have a few more commitments to finish first. Pop over to Tami's Amis to see what else is complete ....
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Talk about working your fingers to the bone ! Well, OK, I don't call what I do work - I like it too much - but I am busy, and then there is all that Xmas knitting I suddenly had inspirations for: why I couldn't have had all these ideas in June, who knows. You do know, actually - it is because it is The Law.
I bought these two balls of lovely Artesano Hummingbird Alpaca 4-ply a little while ago:
I realized I had the perfect person for this colorway, so I bought a pattern - yes, actually spent money on it - and started clicking away:
I feel terribly grumpy and cheated; this colorway looks great in the ball, and as with all Artesano alpaca, it is of a softness that the gods would drool over, but I am not at all loving how the colors are pooling in the shawl, it looks so randomly messy and unplanned that I have put it on the naughty step while I contemplate its future ie. while we sulk at each other for not meeting expectations.
As you know, a shedload of people who need to be knitted for seem to have appeared out of the gloomy darkness of my memory suddenly, so I just cracked on with other stuff - like using the James C.Brett 'Aria' that I found at my little LYS, which is mohair, wool, acrylic and polyester with SEQUINS. I know, I am all about class.
But you can see it is a lovely shade of pastel blue Brett (again) imaginatively calls 'Z3' and it is very beautifully amazingly soft and squooshy and I loves it. And at £3.50 (approx.$5.64) for 215m/235yds, it is not bad value for a hat. So there.
And I even paid for the hat pattern too - it is the Penselwood Hat by Jen Arnall-Culliford; I chose it because it is a little lacy and knitted flat: I'm in too much of a hurry now to mess around with Magic Loops and stuff. And she is approachable, friendly, and on Twitter: which made it easy to ask her about some modifications I wanted to make for a slouchier fit.
And when I am feeling like a challenge, I knit on this Seekret Project (which is deffo not for you this time Alison, I don't love you nearly enough to knit in black for you):
There is intarsia to come on this (imagine that vocalized in a portentous booming voice like that of James Earl Jones) so this won't be completed in any kind of rush, je vous assure.
And much as I love gassing with you all ? This stuff isn't going to knit itself, you know. You need to stop distracting me. While I am hard at it, pop on over to Tami's Amis to see how everyone else is doing ....
