Koolhaas Hat
Well, lookie here…knitting content!
I’m somewhat exasperated with my daughters (both adults). They complain that I never knit them anything, so I knit them something (shrugs) and they nearly whiplashed themselves turning up their noses. So I decided fine..no knitting for you! Which lasted a little while and then I decided to give it another go. I sent them links to websites (Knitty in particular) to have them pick out a sweater they might like me to knit for them. The younger daughter eventually picked one, which I will now knit out of spite even though the entire damned thing is seed stitch. The older daughter? Nothing.
So I took a third approach. As I find a pattern that interests me, I’ll send it to them and see if anyone bites. Thus we get the Koolhaus Hat.
This was a really fun knit. I used less than a skein of “The Real Worsted” and size 8 (5mm needles) from my Denise Interchangeable set. The finishing was a bit of fun since I couldn’t find any dp’s of the right size at home; I ended up using two Denise cables and switching the ends back and forth. That sounds worse than it is…it was only 10 rounds, so not a huge ordeal.
Anyway, I’ll pack off the hat to her, and then start looking at that seed stitch sweater.
March 22nd, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Maybe you should teach them to knit so they can choose their own projects and learn to love them at least for all the work that has gone into them. My own mother rarely ever knit for someone who was not a knitter themselves. She said other knitters were the only ones who truly understood the value of the gift.