Kiss My Knits!

Fellow Charlotteans, could you please be on the lookout for a lightly sloping parking lot or grassy hill? We’re wanting to help Em learn to ride her bike, and this method where you remove the pedals and lower the seat and start them off learning to balance seems to have good reviews. It’s gotta be better than the “run alongside method” which was causing my shins such damage.

Thanks!

Two topics: ‘who texted me?’ + ‘world: stop being an idiot around my kid.’

If you’re going to be in Charlotte on Saturday or Sunday, stop by Charlotte Yarn. They’re having a big anniversary do including a de-stashing swap/sale, where folks will be bringing stuff from their stashes to trade or sell. I myself will be there on Saturday with ungodly amounts of nice yarn at craaaaaaaazy low prices. Buy early, buy often!

In other news, the wrist and knuckles on my right hand hurt, so as much as it pains me today (so to speak) no knitting and minimal typing. Wah!

I did this for tonight’s Charlotte Knitting Guild meeting, where I’m giving a talk about basic hat design in conjunction with our charity project, Hats for Alex. We’re knitting hats for the Levine Children’s Hospital. To give you a sense of size, this hat is modeled on an apple. I deliberately kept it very simple, so that the individual knitter could customize it however he or she liked. Personally, I think this would look good with a little embroidered heart on the front.

The pattern is here on Ravelry, or here (pdf) on tvini.com just in case I screwed up the Ravelry link. Turtlegirl, I know you can’t see flickr at work, so pics are here and here.

It’s a baby hat, but the pattern tells how to do the very simple math to do spiraling decreases at the top of any hat, like this one or this one.

Hopefully the talk will go okay tonight. I have handouts. Everybody loves handouts.