Well firstly, I must apologise for the length of time between this and my last post, I haven't been very well and also my hubby has been using the laptop a lot for college, meaning that I haven't been able to post stuff (I think it's an excellent reason for me to get a macbook but he's not convinced). Anyhoo, if anyone's been suffering from any ill-effects due to a lack of knitting related news, I'm very sorry.
So on to the matter at hand (or head. Ha!) the lovely colourful hat above. I knitted this on 4mm circular needles, using 100% cotton double knitting wool. It was actually wool I had left over from another project I did so this hat would be a good way of using up numerous 'scrap' balls.
Obviously, the advantage of using cotton is that it can be easily washed, which is pretty much essential if you're making anything for kids or babies. Also it's hard wearing and not too heavy, so while it's nice and warm, it'll also do for those days when it's not quite cold enough for a massive furry hat, but too cold to go out hatless.
As I said above, I used circular needles for this one. The advantage to using them is that, even though they take a little longer than using a loom, you've got more flexibility when it comes to sizing of the hat (with the round looms if your head doesn't fit the loom size you're pretty much out of luck). I also much prefer the finish you get at the top of the hat when you use circular needles - you can taper it in gradually as opposed to having to make a long tube and then gather it all at the top.
This hat took me about 2 to 3 hours overall to knit, but I did it at periods over a number of days.
Wool from: Go Woolly
Needles from: Go Woolly
