Hats
I'm sick of knitting.
I've just finished making the three-point version of this as a Christmas[1] present[2] for my brother[3], on orders from my mother[4]. I was knitting in Patons Beehive Shetland Chunky[5], using magic loop method[6]. If that wasn't enough, the pattern is very disheartening, with sharp increases round about the time, with an ordinary hat, you'd be onto the crown shaping and the home straight, and then leaving you to bind off more than 160 stitches. Grumph. Plus, I don't think my brother will like it in any case, but I didn't think an afternoon of my time was worth arguing with my mother over. I will offer to make him a town-hat in a style of his choice, if he prefers.
[1] Bah, humbug!
[2] I think they're just a plot to make us a) spend more money than we can afford, and b) go crazy trying to second guess the recipient and ourselves and/or go crazy from guilt at not appreciating the whole ghastly process.
[3] Least said, soonest mended.
[4] She has (among many) two terrible habits: trying to make me and my brother make nice, when we'd be much happier ignoring each others existence; and giving me orders like I'm an extension of her. At least this present of my making will be going out with my name attached.
Also, I hate the way she can make me hate my hobbies by telling me to do things!
[5] Nice for a yarn with only 25% wool content (and dirt cheap at 3 pounds for 8 balls from Oxfam), but still 75% synthetic fibres. My hands say "ouch".
[6] A useful way of knitting small, tubular objects on a too-large circular needle, but still the creation of Satan; something I only resort to when I don't have double-pointed needles the right size.
I've just finished making the three-point version of this as a Christmas[1] present[2] for my brother[3], on orders from my mother[4]. I was knitting in Patons Beehive Shetland Chunky[5], using magic loop method[6]. If that wasn't enough, the pattern is very disheartening, with sharp increases round about the time, with an ordinary hat, you'd be onto the crown shaping and the home straight, and then leaving you to bind off more than 160 stitches. Grumph. Plus, I don't think my brother will like it in any case, but I didn't think an afternoon of my time was worth arguing with my mother over. I will offer to make him a town-hat in a style of his choice, if he prefers.
[1] Bah, humbug!
[2] I think they're just a plot to make us a) spend more money than we can afford, and b) go crazy trying to second guess the recipient and ourselves and/or go crazy from guilt at not appreciating the whole ghastly process.
[3] Least said, soonest mended.
[4] She has (among many) two terrible habits: trying to make me and my brother make nice, when we'd be much happier ignoring each others existence; and giving me orders like I'm an extension of her. At least this present of my making will be going out with my name attached.
Also, I hate the way she can make me hate my hobbies by telling me to do things!
[5] Nice for a yarn with only 25% wool content (and dirt cheap at 3 pounds for 8 balls from Oxfam), but still 75% synthetic fibres. My hands say "ouch".
[6] A useful way of knitting small, tubular objects on a too-large circular needle, but still the creation of Satan; something I only resort to when I don't have double-pointed needles the right size.