EZ practice hat #2

Another Elizabeth Zimmermann practice cap, this time as a gauge swatch for this yarn I have a ton of, Lion Brand Fishermen’s Wool. It’s just brown, so it’s kinda like knitting with my own hair. I have some cream-colored yarn of the same variety to use for the color-pattern work.

Chuggin’ along…

That last pattern was an accident. I was trying to make just a zigzag line but the top row got offset. I guess it doesn’t matter what you do, it’ll make SOME kind of pattern as long as you keep repeating it!

If this looks exactly the same as the last picture, GOOD. Because I found a mistake I couldn’t live with, and had to rip it back about an inch. I thought about fixing the zigzag I messed up before, but I kinda liked it so I just did it again.

Normally I wouldn’t have to rip out a whole section just to fix one twisted stitch or whatever, but this was worse than that. I had some, uh… unintentional short rows in there. You can’t fix that by dropping a stitch or two down. But who cares, it only took a half-hour to fix.

The completed hat.

Yep, I felted it. Kind of on purpose and kind of not… I was experimenting with how much abuse it would take, and it immediately failed the washing-machine test. Oh well, at least I learned a lesson about this yarn! I can’t really have fabric items in my house that aren’t machine-washable at the very least. They just don’t belong here. They need to march themselves next door, or anyplace but here.