YSABET VS. THE HAT OF DOOM, FURTHER ADVENTURES
Y'all recall my speculating that knitting the Hat would result in a loss of my sanity (such as it is?) Well... if it comes down to a contest between Hat and Ysabet's Gray Matter...
...the Hat is winning.
Saturday afternoon I looked at the Hat and its instructions and went "Hey! I've knitted 6" beyond the corrugated part! I can now start my decreases and surely I'll be able to keep some sort of pattern intact! So I tried. Wrong-o; couldn't get what looked even remotely like a pattern, and things were getting messy, and aaaargh. So I frogged about six rows and tried again. Same frickin' result. Frogged it again, tried once more. INSERT MANY SWEARS HERE. I then, with the occasional break for tragically maddened laughter and noms, attempted a few avant-garde methods of working the decreases with my own version of the pattern. It looked massively sucky.
And therefore, late last night, due to a bout of almost complete sleeplessness that I'm regretting Big Time right now (don't ask, silly reason, man am I cranky), I ripped it out down to the beginning of the decreases and put in a single all-the-way-around row of Color!A, followed by a steady k1-Color!A k2-Color!B, which kinda worked and didn't look entirely retarded when I did the decreases. Halfway through this sometime in the wee hours, I went into my bathroom and tried it on.
You know those 6" of pattern? They would look LOVELY if I happened to have a massive Frankensteinian head with a forehead 8" long. THE PATTERN LIES. IT LIES LIKE A LYING THING. Due to its thickness (I mean, Noro yarn plus floats? yeeeeaaaahhh), the hat stood up all on its lonesome above my head rather like a chef's hat.
I probably alarmed my neighbors with the noises I made at that point; I know I alarmed my cats and woke up the ferrets. Think I made up some new words, actually, which is something of an accomplishment; I do recall using the one that nightengale gave me a while back ("duckfucker") when I requested a new swear.
SO.
Today at lunch I will frog the godsdamn thing down to an appropriate level of patternedness, say around 3 1/2" from the corrugated edging, and figure out what to do from there. Anybody got any nice two-color finishes for a hat they'd like to recommend? I really don't want to set this on fire, not after all this work, despite my urges to do so; and burning wool smells awful (though you can make a decent medieval Arabic ink from wool ashes, believe it or not.) The pattern is 96 stitches around and uses what amounts to two colors; help?
Thenkyew veddy much. **gloom**
...the Hat is winning.
Saturday afternoon I looked at the Hat and its instructions and went "Hey! I've knitted 6" beyond the corrugated part! I can now start my decreases and surely I'll be able to keep some sort of pattern intact! So I tried. Wrong-o; couldn't get what looked even remotely like a pattern, and things were getting messy, and aaaargh. So I frogged about six rows and tried again. Same frickin' result. Frogged it again, tried once more. INSERT MANY SWEARS HERE. I then, with the occasional break for tragically maddened laughter and noms, attempted a few avant-garde methods of working the decreases with my own version of the pattern. It looked massively sucky.
And therefore, late last night, due to a bout of almost complete sleeplessness that I'm regretting Big Time right now (don't ask, silly reason, man am I cranky), I ripped it out down to the beginning of the decreases and put in a single all-the-way-around row of Color!A, followed by a steady k1-Color!A k2-Color!B, which kinda worked and didn't look entirely retarded when I did the decreases. Halfway through this sometime in the wee hours, I went into my bathroom and tried it on.
You know those 6" of pattern? They would look LOVELY if I happened to have a massive Frankensteinian head with a forehead 8" long. THE PATTERN LIES. IT LIES LIKE A LYING THING. Due to its thickness (I mean, Noro yarn plus floats? yeeeeaaaahhh), the hat stood up all on its lonesome above my head rather like a chef's hat.
I probably alarmed my neighbors with the noises I made at that point; I know I alarmed my cats and woke up the ferrets. Think I made up some new words, actually, which is something of an accomplishment; I do recall using the one that nightengale gave me a while back ("duckfucker") when I requested a new swear.
SO.
Today at lunch I will frog the godsdamn thing down to an appropriate level of patternedness, say around 3 1/2" from the corrugated edging, and figure out what to do from there. Anybody got any nice two-color finishes for a hat they'd like to recommend? I really don't want to set this on fire, not after all this work, despite my urges to do so; and burning wool smells awful (though you can make a decent medieval Arabic ink from wool ashes, believe it or not.) The pattern is 96 stitches around and uses what amounts to two colors; help?
Thenkyew veddy much. **gloom**