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I finished my Cabled Rangoli Hat tonight. It's very nice and I'm glad I made the adjustments I made. It's my second hat for the 11 hats in 2011 challenge.



Mods & Notes:

- Added 6 rows to ribbing.

- I have no clue how to do a m2. I’ve looked it up in my books, via google, and here on Ravelry with not much luck. This was the best I found: m2=m1 & opposite of KFB (B then F).

- Oops. Forgot the bobbles the first go around. I might omit the second set
too…

- Omitted second set of bobbles as well. I’m not really a bobble gal.

- I really don’t like the decreases for the crown in the cable. They show up
and look a bit sloppy. If I were to make this again, I’d do purl decreases along the edges of the cables.




My two skeins of WotA Kettle Dyed were COMPLETELY different looking as they were knit up. In the balls, they looked the same & they have the same dye lot. Had I not purchased these so long ago, I would have asked for an exchange or something. Once it was all knitted up, the line wasn't AS noticeable as I originally thought, but I can still tell.

Sideways Grande Cloche

I finished a hat yesterday. It's been a while since I've finished anything except a dishcloth...



It's the Sideways Grande Cloche from Boutique Knits. It's very cute in the photo, however, I'm not a big fan of it now that I've knit it. It's WAY too big for me and the twisted bit will not stay twisted so much as slumped. I blocked it out last night in the hopes that the ribbing will bunch up a bit more but I don't think that really helped honestly. The yarn is a recycled angora/nylon/whatever else was thrown in there blend. But just enough angora to make me sneeze endlessly as I knit it.



I did a 3-needle bind off to join the body together, and again for the pieces that made up the twist. There are odd bits that sort of stick out at the bottom from the joins, but since the hat is so frakkin' long, I'll end up folding it up and covering that. I think if the hat actually fit correctly in length, I might take the twist out and redo it in one piece (as a cable or braid), but since it's so large, I'm not going to bother.



I think I'll make another one of these, but with about 9 less stitches for the body and a cable.