It's another thing for boyfriend's larp. His unit is called the Navy, so I've been making him naval things. The other week just before Halloween I sewed him up a pretty nice blue vest with gold buttons, a watch chain, shoulder epaulets, the whole deal. And now he wants a hat. Think of the hat Mr. Smee wears in the animated Peter Pan. he's got it in his mind that his whole unit is going to wear these uniforms, and I'm going to make him. Which mean he gets the sample pieces.
The biggest problem with him wanting a cabled hat is that I'm not very good at cables. A few years ago I tried to make myself a cabled scarf, and I ended up ripping it apart over and over again because the cables always had big weird holes in the middle and looked just terrible. And I know, I know, practice makes perfect, but i have avoided them like the plague ever since. And now they're what he requested specifically. Not with the correct words, mind you, but they are what he requested. But I went on to Ravelry and looked around with him until we found a cabled hat pattern that he likes.
So I haven't started the cables yet. I finished the brim, a one by one rib which was none to fun, but actually kind of better than the two by two ribs I've been working for the millions of mittens I'm making and have made. And there are a couple of real-ish reasons why I haven't started the hate body yet: 1) the pattern is only written out with a chart, and I've never worked off of a chart before. I mean, I know how, I just haven't. 2) My printer's out of ink, so I have to go to the print lab on campus (I live in a college town) to print out the chart because I don't really want to copy it down by hand the way I have been doing with patterns lately and I don't really just want to sit in front of the computer and knit it. 3) I have to make some alterations to the pattern because the pattern is for a normal sized hat and not a stocking hat, and I'm not totally sure how it's going to work out. 4) I'm still totally freaked out by cables. And I didn't pay close enough attention to the pattern already because I thought the whole brim was just one by one rib, but no. Some of the cables were supposed to start in it. Oh well. He's just going to have to live without that.
I will say those bamboo circular needles I got a few weeks ago are certainly getting some mileage pretty quickly. This is the third hat I've started on them. I (really really) need to get some US 9 double pointed needles so I can stop doing the magic loop on these needles that really aren't long enough for it, but that is not a financial priority right now. And who knows. Maybe today I'll be brave enough to start the cables.
Happy knitting!
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