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Still sunny, but we’re close to the colder days. After having fun knitting Christmas socks last year, I decided I *needed* a Christmas-period hat.
I also added the mittens because I had never knitted mittens before and I wanted a challenge (spoiler: that wasn’t a challenge, that was so easy!).
- Phildar Charly*
- Silver thread*
- Cirdular needles (2.5, 3, and 3.5)
- Pompon*
Free patterns
Drops website offers a lot of free patterns meant for their various yarns.
I chose this hat and the corresponding mittens.
The drawings were cute and I knew the hat would be quick.
You’ll need to know how to knit in the round, follow a diagram, and adapt your gauge.
I was provided with Phildar Charly yarn* which is different from Drops’ Karisma.
I knitted it as I would have with the Karisma.
Cute characters and trees
Aren’t they cute? Tje cuff or the band of the hat is knitted with a 1*2 rib, framed by moss stitch.
I mixed silver thread* to the grey on the hat (I couldn’t get it to shine on the picture!). This thread is really hard to handle because 1. the spool was badly spun and 2. one of the cats ran with it in her mouth! So I got a huge jumble of silver thread.
The pompon can be handmade, but I opted to get this fur pompon*. Note: don’t leave it too close to a cat….trust me!
This hat is a bit loose. I wondered if I got the size M wrong, but once you look closely to the pattern picture, you can can see there’s space at the top, underneath the pompon.
Mittens are really fun to knit. Assess where you want the thumb opening to be before marking it. The instructions were shallow if you’ve never knitted thumbs. So I read these ones instead and it went perfectly fine.
I shortened the length of the mittens, taking off one row of snowflakes and two rows of grey. I even think that I could knit the child size because I do have tiny hands and even a size Small adult was too wide and long.
The afterthought thumb has some holes at its base, a feature it shares with armholes/sleeve knitting. I’ll probably look for a tutorial to prevent this from happening next time.
Yes, “next time”, because I had too much fun knitting mittens and I have plans for a lot of mittens!
