Well, I broke down and bought me a set of those connected knitting needles and a pair of chunky wool skiens to try and make my dear daughters a nice wool warm hat! I thought it was cool that the “green” thing had even permeated into the crafts and knitting world! The ones I picked were actually from a hardwood bamboo, and were 2 dollars more than the cheapy metal and nylon ones. I’ll be honest, I didn’t set out to try and find something sustainable in the knitting world, but was oddly pleased to see that. Kinda cool.

So I got my trust YouTube education library scanned and found a neat little video on making a simple hat! Yah! And it seemed pretty good. And I started to learn how to knit in the round.

Let me tell you, it’s actually kinda fun, because there’s no end or anything, you just knit. And knit and knit. For a good long time. And then you start to decrease your stitches and POOF! You get a little comfy knit hat!!!

But, I did something wrong along the way… (didn’t calculate my gauge properly and ended up with a big flat saucer hat!! HAHA! Jessy is modeling our new design. I left a long end on the thing so that you can tie it around your chin! She thought I was pretty goofy. Instead of a hat, I succeeded in making a giant round kitty doily!!! Yep, a perfect place for a feline to perch on your side table by a lamp.

So I unraveled the beastly thing and started over. I decreased my starting cast on stitches by like 25 and then did more rows and watched the video and actually did what they SAID, not my own weird ideas. And thankfully, Jessy has a cute little warm floppy brim hat and she loves it! Maggie’s is already on the needles and I figger I’ll have it in a day or two. YEAH! Something actually functional!!! And I made it!!!