I’m working on some knitting tonight. The crafty bug has bit me hard over the last couple of weeks, and I’ve been sooo impatient for a night like tonight where I can just sit down and get to it.
Unfortunately, the hat I was working on had to bite the dust….after a week of working on it (extremely sporadically) , the yarn just kept winding too tight. Plus, I think it would have been too small for the person I was making it for anyway. (I made MJ try on what I had worked on and it fit around her neck…which is an average medium-sized dog neck…much smaller than a person’s head.)
I think I’m having a hard time with the hat for two reasons:
1. I’ve made scarves before, but no hats. I used the long rectangular “knifty knitter” to make the scarves…so this is my first experience with the round ones.
2. I have a really big head. No, I don’t have an ego problem, I mean that my head is HUGE. Little tiny ordinary people hats do not fit my head. They make dents in my forehead. (I need extra room for mah super-sized brains….uh, no ego problem here, moving right along.) In all seriousness though, it is not my imagination…my head really is bigger than other peoples’ heads. Ex No. 1: I made “Native American Indian Hats” for the adults to wear at the Kindergarten Thanksgiving party….I sized them all to my head…. they were too big for all the other parents/adults. *Sniff!* I’m ok though. My big head has taken me far in life.
Er, wasn’t this post about knitting?
Anyway, my point was that I am having a hard time using the round knitting looms. I have a teeny tiny baby one that is blue, a kid size? one that is red, a bigger one that is green, and a GIGANTOR sized one that is purple. I may have a giant head, but srsly, this thing is like big enough to go around my waist…no one’s head is that big.
I started on the kid? size red one, but I think that one was just too small..I’m going to try again on the green one, so I hope that that is the right size.
If anyone has any tips/ideas/epiphanies on how I can get the yarn to quit being so tight and/or what size I should use (it is for someone with a normal sized adult head), please, please PLEASE, let me know!
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