Darswords

Instead, I thought I’d better capture the greenery while I can. We are green usually only early Spring. But here we are nearly July when yellow and hot dust is the norm for the desert Outback of Oregon.

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So, I think I know what I want to wear for my daughter and her fiancé’s October costume wedding.  Crone witch! I can make my own hat and cape! The crone part is built in!🤪

So at the beginning of the weekend I was working with Scarlett Royal’s loomknit witch’s hat. But I learned there would be a lot of sewing. 

I had socks on the Flexes so I transferred by way of a skinny set of ChiaoGoo Red-lace Circular Needles. I had started on the 12 peg  loom for the brim and the 36 peg for the hat. That was when I noticed I’d have a lot of sewing ahead.

In the past, I learned I could do a nice decrease using the Flexees. But for this witch hat I needed to get a good point. I didn’t feel I could figure that out. Here’s her YouTube if you want to try.

I think this next one by PleasantSeas may do the trick. After tinking and frogging all weekend, I found and started working on it.

I read the pattern featured on the YouTube page. That I can do. I told myself. It starts similar to my Toe-up Two At A Time Socks. So I followed the pattern about 17 rows in. Then I noticed that it seemed the author got the numbering wrong. Once again, my tracking was off. Still I was liking how it was turning out.

Here’s what I should have done:

But here’s what I have at Row 17.

Anyway, I think I’ll continue as I am going until the “wearable” part of the hat gets close. Then I’ll increase faster as PleasantSeas does. I think I want the point high or curly. We’ll see how that turns out.

Meanwhile, the socks I pulled off the Flexee looms, looks like this:

Sadly, the Flexees are empty. Back to just needle knitting for now.

But now I need to drop the needles and hop on the stationary bike to see if I can make up the mile(s) we missed this morning.