Monday, November 05, 2007

An FO, No Really

Take Lion Brand's Nature's Choice Organic Cotton Yarn

And some double pointed needles. A lot of time in waiting rooms, a creative mind, some patience and a knitting friend sitting next to you at a shopping event where you are selling your soaps and you get this:


A very cute, natural, neutral, organic cotton baby hat for a Mom who doesn't know the gender of her baby yet like my cousin who is due in February.

US 9 double pointed needles

Cast on 54 stitches evenly on 3 needles (18 on each needle). Join being careful not to twist.

k3p3 for 1 inch. stockinette till hat is long enough for you (I did 5 inches) Begin decrease.

k4, ssk around. knit 1 round.

k3 ssk around, knit 1 round.

k2 ssk around, knit 1 round

ssk around till you have 3 stitches left.

I-cord till the cord is a length you like. Bind off.

You can increase/decrease cast on as long as you can do a k3p3 rib.

Can you tell I designed this to practice my slip, slip, knits? ;-)

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yum Organic Cotton. Ironic -- I'm knitting myself a hat with organic cotton. I've never tried the Lions Brand, I'm knitting with Blue Sky Alpaca.

Anonymous said...

That came out fantastic. Good job!

NH Knitting Mama said...

What a cute hat! At least you're able to make your waiting room time productive.

Grace said...

just adorable!

SissySees said...

Yet another friend is expecting, and has requested green and/or yellow items. I have some great, green LB Organic, and I think it wants to be a hat...

Thanks too for posting the coffee swap topic. I don't know that I would have seen that on my own this week!

Bubblesknits said...

That turned out precious! I wish they would sell the LB Organic Cotton here.

BTW, I ended up catching the hubby's bug after all. Grr...

tina said...

Fab! Love baby things of any description and your hat is darling. And organic, I mean how perfect is that anyway???

WILD APPLAUSE FOR THE FO!

Holly said...

You are so talented.