Wearing my hat and scarf while waiting for a parade.
One time in the late fall, I lost my L.L. Bean hat. It was definitely getting too cold not to have a hat. I decided to go ahead and knit myself a quick one. I had bought two balls of Lang Tissa Color Col #20 in beautiful shades of pink, purple, peach, and lots of shades of blue (it is of course not visible on the link).
I had bought the yarn because the colors are perfect for me, but I didn’t have any really clear idea on what I was going to make with it. To make my hat, I doubled the yarn, because I didn’t want to be knitting a hat at 5.5 sts/in when I wanted a quick hat. I also thought this would help to avoid solid stripes of colors and found that by starting the two balls in the right places I got a beautiful marled effect.
I love the way that the colors combined.
I knit my first hat. I had doubled it over at the brim and lined it with fleece. It was a little bulky in the end, and I found that it didn’t stay down around my ears (which was also my complaint about the L.L. Bean one). In the meantime, I had cast on for a coordinating scarf.
My scarf is fairly short and wide as I based its width off a fleece scarf and knit until I ran out of yarn. With the doubled yarn and the fleece lining, it is a thick scarf as well.
I usually wear the scarf like this under my coat,
If it is really cold, I can get the scarf wrapped over my nose.
Then I found my L.L. Bean hat. Then I lost my handknit hat and both kids hats. I gave E. my L.L. Bean hat, bought J. a new hat, and set about knitting myself a new hat with earflaps this time (and found out that the scarf going over my head and ears like a hood before crossing under my neck works pretty well as an emergency hat).
Here's my hat with earflaps.
I put buttons and a button hole on the bottom of each flap so that they will stay close to my ears. I added bunch of crochet to make the hat longer in the back, as I had initially made the hat with the earflaps directly across from eachother. If I were to make another hat like this, I would divide the sts above the earflaps 30/70 rather than 50/50 so that the hat would automatically be a little lower in the back (at least I think that would work).
I lined the hat with fleece, but had to put in some darts on the earflaps as I misjudged their width.
I can even fit a bun under the hat...
All in all some satisfying winter accessories that have been keeping me very warm.
