Welcome to another Three on
Thursday list. Today I’m thinking about knitting hats. What with the 52 Hats challenge, it seems like I’m always thinking
about hats these days. Recently I've added three more hats to my Ravelry queue.
2. Weather the Weather Hat designed by Megan Williams. I love the lightening stripe zigzags. I have
a love/hate relationship with lightening.
I love thunderstorms and watching the lightening streak across the sky. But over the years, I’ve come dangerously
close to being struck by lightening multiple times so I’m a little paranoid
about it. As a teen aged lifeguard, I was
standing about six feet away from the edge of the pool when it was struck. I’ve
been on a sailboat and had the mast get struck. More than once, I’ve been in the water,
swimming a boat back to shore that’s lost its steerage, when lightening was striking the water all around me. And several times, lightening has struck
the ground just outside the window I was sitting next to. I’m a lightening magnet! So I thought it would be fun to laugh in
lightening’s face and knit a hat with lightening bolts on it.
3. Ferry in the Harbor designed by Kirsten Kapur. Besides wanting to get more practice with
fair isle, or color stranded knitting in general, the hat’s named Ferry in the
Harbor. If you couldn’t tell from my
lightening story, I love anything to do with boats and/or water.
I love all the hats, but especially the Ferry in the Harbor! I might have yarn that will work in that one!
ReplyDeleteI was so excited to see it. I have a skein of ferry yellow yarn that's been hanging out for ages with no intended purposes. Now, if I can only find something suitable in the stash to go along with it...
DeleteI am all about knitting hats this year!
ReplyDeleteSomehow I missed Ferry in the Harbor. I try to follow K. Kapur, but I missed this pattern somehow. It's going on my queue!
Her patterns are great, right?
DeleteAll wonderful patterns. My Husband has a relationship with lightening too. He's been struck indirectly twice and directly once. He had shrapnel in his arm from being shot, accidentally by his brother! And then his rental car was shot up right after he got out of it, hitting the drivers side door! He leads a charmed life!
ReplyDeleteWow! I thought I lived dangerously! Sounds like somewhere out there, there's a very tired guardian angel. :)
DeleteThe brim of the Oak Leaf beanie is so pretty!
ReplyDeleteWish I could take credit for that. But one day soon.... :)
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