Monday, January 18, 2010

Quinn's Surprise Birthday Hat - Incomplete

Quinn's birthday is in 14 days (today inclusive) and I'm about to start row 16 of her 69-row birthday surprise beret. I need to make significant progress today, especially since classes start tomorrow! As I mentioned before, I'm a little nervous about whether this will fit or not. Since it's a surprise it's not like I can just have her try it on half-way. I'm going to ask my other housemate to try it on though... her head is closer to the size of Quinn's that mine is.

I'm knitting the Virginia beret from The Knitter, issue 10. You can see what it is supposed to look like on the cover of the magazine (pictured on the right). I left the magazine sitting out at my house and Quinn saw it and just loved it. And since I decided I wanted to try and make a fancy beret as fast as I possibly could and, ideally, still have it look good, I decided that this would be a great present. So, hopefully she'll still like it in two weeks.

The yarn I'm using is Heritage sock yarn (100 grams / 437 yards) in red (color 5607). I'm using size 2 and 3 double-pointed needles; this is by far the smallest needle I've worked with and it definitely took some getting used to. Fortunately, the pattern isn't too challenging, just time consuming.

And now I'm looking at other people's Virgina berets on Ravelry.com and they all look really good. I know it's hard to tell when it's still on the needles (especially when I'm not even through the fancy diamond part) but I'm really nervous. I hope mine comes out looking as nice as everybody else's.

2 comments:

  1. Hi! You've made a lot of progress on Quinn's hat. I think she's going to really like it. The blog looks great. Happy knitting! Mom

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  2. It is a beautiful color! i used to knit and it is fun! you inspired me. I may try knit something. kyo

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