Friday, June 19, 2009

Knitting 101

My desire to learn how to knit really surfaced out of sheer frugalness. The boys are cloth diapered for most of the day with the exception of nighttime. I cringe every time I have to purchase special nighttime diapers. This lead me to my desire to knit a nighttime soaker to cover the cloth diapers. Many people thought I was crazy to try a soaker as my first knitting project but hey what could I lose. Fast forward 2 weeks.... Alex gets wind of my knitting escapades and request a Mohawk hat. If you buy the pattern I will try I tell him. After 3 nights of knitting I have finally completed the hat with one minor step to be done... felting... Here is the hat before I felted it! Looks okay on Patrick's head, let's just say thank god I took a picture before I felted.



Here is the hat after I felted:


Obviously I need to read up on felting. I still have to felt the soaker for the boys, which by the way was much harder to knit than this silly hat!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is just too funny....but I have to say you're doing a great job with knitting.

Love Mom

Anonymous said...

Hi Roxanna. This looks really good for a first time knitter. Now you can make the boys all different hats. You will have to make one with horns for your mother.

Anna