Sunday, December 13, 2020

I was enjoying working on a new hat pattern the last few evenings but I worried that I didn’t have enough yarn. Sure enough I was seeing the end of the spool and I still had at least half an inch to knit plus the decreases for the crown.

My first thought was to take it apart and find a new pattern but I thought I would start the decreases early and see how it worked out. I did that last night and if I keep it a bit shorter than the pattern says I will have enough to finish the hat.

But as I finished it off I noticed a couple of problems with the decrease. I’m not sure if it was the pattern or if I made a mistake. Tonight I will try to reverse knit back to the error and see if I can pick it up again. If not, I’ll take it all out and start over, knowing that I have enough yarn to make a slightly smaller version.

I spent the morning in my sewing room. I decided that rather than just clean up I would do some rearranging. It is pretty much done now, except for one corner, and I like the way it looks. I haven’t tried it out to see how it works when I’m actually sewing something but I’ll get to that tomorrow.

I’m going to relax with some cross stitching for the rest of the afternoon.