Can you believe it? YES! The Short-Row Hat is finished, finito, done!
Specs:
Pattern: Short-Row Hat by Veronik Avery
Yarn: 1 1/2 balls of Diakeito in Color #41
Needles: Brittany size 7 straights, size 7 dpn's
Start Date: (okay, final restart date): Thursday, February 8, 2007
Finish Date: Sunday, February 11, 2007
Modifications: I'd like to say I didn't make any deliberate modifications, but I didn't do the i-cord on the top. The pattern says to pick up 32 stitches to close the crown using dpn's, but there was no way I could pick up that many. I picked up 22 and skipped the lines in the pattern to coincide.
As frustrated as I got with this pattern, I did enjoy it once it got going. I might consider doing another one sometime, but with other yarn. The Diakeito has a lovely colorway, but the fiber goes from really thin to really thick periodically, and made some of the gaps more noticeable.
Thanks to the impromptu knit-in at my house this afternoon, I was inspired to keep at this until it was done tonight! I had a great time with my sister, the blogless Kathy (who learned to purl today and was doing a great job!), Zarah, Brianne, and Meredith. Thanks again, girls!
Comments (7)
How exciting - I love it! Thanks again for hosting the knit-in! It was great to meet you girls!!
Posted by Meredith | February 11, 2007 10:10 PM
Awesome! (Insert "see, I told you so" here.) It's very cute - perfect for that snow storm coming in this week!
Posted by Zarah | February 12, 2007 7:27 AM
WooHoo an FO. It looks great.
Posted by Trish | February 12, 2007 11:51 AM
Very cute. Once you got going, you were on a roll!
Posted by Amy | February 12, 2007 1:17 PM
Rock on, it looks great... glad you got the best of it!
Posted by Jaime | February 12, 2007 3:37 PM
Congratulations!! It looks great. You did it -- we can all say we knew you when. :-)
Posted by Sue | February 12, 2007 4:40 PM
Cool hat...perchance it may one day rest upon my lockes of bottled gold...
Posted by Lola | February 17, 2007 1:35 PM