I mentioned in my last post that I was knitting with some special wool. It was Equity Sport from Sincere Sheep. It is made from Rambouillet sheep, who happen to have kinky fleece as they age.
Here’s a Rambouillet ram: (photo credit: Oklahoma State Animal Sciences)
This makes for a great texture in the yarn.
I was knitting the Scrollwork hat from Brooklyn Tweed, but rather than use tweed yarn, I wanted to try it out with my Rambouillet wool.
I knit the hat using size 3 circular needles for the brim, and size 6 circular needles for the body. This yarn is sport weight, so I knew the hat would be a little smaller than the pattern promised to produce, but hats often turn out too large for me, so I was willing to take the risk.
The pattern is lovely, and the root-like cables coalesce on the back of the hat:
Unfortunately, the yarn did prove to be not the best fit for the pattern. It wasn’t robust enough and the hat, even with all of those cables, is a little on the thin and limp side. I will also go down an additional needles size on the band if I make this pattern again. It doesn’t have the springy stretch intended for a ribbed band.
Luckily, after blocking, the hat grew a little, and will be wearable (at least for me….I have a small head).
In other news, I realized after my last post that I had actually purchased YET another hank of yarn at Stitches Midwest. I forgot to show it to you, so here it is:
This was actually my first purchase at the market! It was only $12 because it is only really half a skein. I loved the colorway so much that I searched the full skeins in hopes of finding one with no luck. This was the only skein in the whole place in this colorway. I was about to walk away when I realized I could still make socks from it. I have done this before: weight the skein and split it into two equal halves (by weight since I don’t have a yardage counter, but I do have a gram scale), and then knit a sock from each half, using a coordinating color from my stash for the heels and toes to compensate for scanty yardage.
Done! I purchased the yarn, and if you read my last post, you know what happened next…
~Happy knitting!
“Relaxing” on Saturday | Kristenisms...
Aug 17, 2014 @ 19:49:34
Second Scrollwork | Kristenisms...
Aug 30, 2014 @ 20:11:35