R2D2 Beanie Complete – Super Happy Fun Photos « Knitting, Photography and Randomness

Here it is, in all it’s glory! Yes, I look goofy. The pattern is a combination of a craftster and megaknits pattern. I also used white instead of the called-for grey. Grey just doesn’t look right to me.

It’s too big for my head, which is great since it’s for my husband. I wanted to get it done while he is out of town and he will be home in about 2 hours so good timing! I just need to stick it on his head and see if I need to pick up even more stitches for his huge head before I seam it up.

Now I need to make one for me and the boys!

The yarn was Vanna’s Choice – I’m no yarn snob! And this was nice to work with actually – except the red which was just some scrap yarn. I’d say this took about 20ish hours to do.

This was my second attempt at this hat actually. The first one was a complete disaster. My first attempt at intrasiam and I failed miserably. I also tried to knit it entirely in the round. I also used random yarns of different ply and size.

It doesn’t even fit helper monkey! It came out lumpy and misshapen.

So it was definitely time to restart and do it the way it’s called for in the pattern. Here’s the restart.

So far so good! The little red eye looks like a heart for some reason.

Sophie certainly approves.

The mess of the back. My gosh, that was a lot of seaming up lose ends. Something tells me most people do it differently or no one would ever change colors.

In other knitting news…

I went and got the needles for the pinwheel sweater. While at the LYS I couldn’t resist this yarn. It was on sale! Time to CO the pinwheel sweater and count the minutes till DH gets home!

Ali Says:

August 16, 2007 at 3:32 pm

You can avoid that stranding across the back if you make tiny balls of each colour and use one tiny ball for each ‘patch’. You need to twist the colours around each other at the star of each new colour (otherwise you’ll get a gap in the stitching).

Or, if there’s not that many stitches between two blocks of colour, you can ‘carry’ the yarn behind. To do this, you twist the non-working colour around the working colour on the wrong side of the work before each stitch. This weaves the non-working colour in across the back of the work. Be aware it will make things a little less stretchy.

I did learn how to do this from a website but danged if I can find it now! You may have to try google.

[thanks for your comment on my blog too ]

knittingnoob Says:

August 16, 2007 at 4:37 pm

i watched a video on knittinghelp.com, where I go to get most of my knitting help. Course I was too excited to get started and didn’t watch it all the way through.

it’s a lot of 2 blue 1 white 3 blue all the way across, so i figured I’d just string them across the back. I think next time I’ll do more little balls of yarn though. like instead of 4, maybe 8.

Thanks a lot!