This Week in Austin's Life:Knitting Edition(Ep 2)

So this was a very interesting week. It started off with tropical storm Isaac canceling school on Monday and just making my entire weekend very rainy. We all know that just means more knitting time, and boy did I do a lot of that.

So now on to what I knitted during the week.
First is the hats. I have been on a big hat kick recently. For a long time I shied away from knitted hats. I had a lot of trouble getting a good size and gauge, but now I have a pretty good stitch count and decrease method for worsted weight hats, which is totally awesome, so I can turn out a hat for myself in a day or two with a little bit of knitting during classes.
"Hat" is a pretty general term, so I guess I should be more specific and say beanie. I like my hats to be pretty fitted and not very slouchy. Any bigger and I feel like a Rastafarian with a silly beret.

These are the ones I have knit so far.
The first one, from left to right, is a waffle stitch beanie. I actually dyed the yarn myself with kool-aid. It was so much fun, but since I had dyed it a while ago, the yarn didn't smell like the sugary drink, which definitely isn't as fun.

and here is a picture of me wearing it
Next is the famous wurm hat, adapted for a aran weight yarn. It is such a nice yarn, it is Rio de la Plata. It is kind of sad because it is discontinued, but my LYSs has a load still, and for some reason people havent grabbed all of it up. The colour way is almost like a blue camo, I love it when yarns pool like that, plus it looks great with my TARDIS shirt.(speaking of doctor who, I will have to talk about that later)

After that we have my brass and steam hat(in reference to my matching shawl/scarf/thingey). It is a one by one garter rib hat, that you can't really see very well because I am an awful photographer. I can't wait till winter when I can be all matchey-matchey with my hat and shawl.
Lastly, of the hats, we have my metro-rail hat that I have already talked about, and I really would not like to bore your brains so I will stop talking about it.

Now onto my current projects
One of many hat is the The Hat in which I would like a cocoon(because I couldn't think of anything more clever) and it is made out of rowan cocoon. It is a little bit hairy, but it is incredibly soft. I am knitting it at a pretty tight gauge in a one by one garter rib, so it is going to be perfect for the deadly winters in Miami.

Last week I got the yarn for a rainbow granny square afghan.

And of course I had to call it the "Granny got Pride" afghan. Now, I know what you are thinking, "could this kid get any more gay?" and the answer is yes, yes I could, and I am. As you will see in the next post I make.
I have made about four squares so far. I am not exactly sure how many squares I should make, I am still working out the logistics of optimum square placement.

I have been getting an especially large amount of work done on my Southeast Village Sweater, which is a super wonderful free pattern. It is actually pretty interesting because it is on of the only men's sweaters I have knit that has shaping for the torso. Now some sweaters do not need shaping for the chest because they have ribbing, but this is super useful since it is going to be a pretty fitted sweater. I have finished the back of the sweater and I am more than half way done with the back. I hope to finish it before the winter, so I can survive the freezing temperatures of the Miami-Dade chemistry lab.

so that is pretty much a week of knitting(and crocheting). It is pretty crazy how much you can get done when you work with worsted weight yarn. I forsee a lot of hats in my future. Of course I can't predict the future because of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, but I can determine the probability of every molecule's position and momentum in my head, and thus predict that I will be knitting lots of hats.