Kiss My Knits!

I think I may stop offering the cotton hats. I mainly offer them out of pity to the Browncoats who are allergic to wool. The cotton hats take longer, are more difficult to knit due to the unyielding nature of cottton, and the materials cost more. The yarn is hand-dyed in South America and it’s very difficult to get consistent from dye lot to dye lot, which is troublesome when people understandably expect their hat to look like the picture on the site. I had to rip out three inches of yellow I knitted last night because the variegation was such that it looked more tiger-ish than Jayne-ish. Two half-skeins were available that matched that didn’t have the variegation. What a pain in the keister.

I knitted a test swatch on size 0 needles of the red/copper handspun I made. Feels a bit scratchy, but it looks nice! Although this produced 7 stitches per inch, I think it will be more pleasant to knit on slightly larger needles. I’ll rip it out and swatch it again at some point. Right now I’m nowhere near ready to knit with the yarn, what with it only being about 2/3 spun.

Today, I need to call around for more summer camps for Emily, continue knitting up this final cotton Jayne hat, and then move on to more wool ones. Everyone currently in line should get theirs by the summer Serenity screenings, but I don’t want to leave anything to chance. It’s been a busy morning of writing Jayne notes, boxing up hats, and generally doing the non-knitting tasks that make the hats super-shiny. Back to work!