Wildly madly knitting hats

My youngest son did not get anything big handknit for Christmas. He liked the picture of this wild dreadlocks hat on the cover of Men Who Knit and the Dogs Who Love Them(Larke Books)FOR DREWS SKI TRIP

And here is the first hat I knitted started Monday nite after I had a party at the house. I finished it yesterday morning. Its knitted on tens with some chunky yarn i got at Michaels...Michaels has it on sale...Bernat Alpaca Mix and Patons Chunky Shetland Tweeds.

THANK YOU MARY!!!

At the party my dear friend Mary Verdery gifted me with 32 skeins of Noro Kureyon #92(lucky me:>!!!) I went to lunch with the other Margaret and Rachel and kept thinking about the silly but fun hat....and knew the Noro would be perfect for it....so after a long nap...I feel asleep while starting the second hat...stayed up late knitting on the first hat(2AM!!) and not even the needles would keep my eyes propped open....FINALLY I woke up and started knitting again...if I hadnt I would have been asleep again...I finished this one about 11 pm...and promptly fell asleep again...NO wait...I remembered I had bought another color way of Noro(#185 Kureyon) on half price sale this summer in Highlands at Why Not Knit....another fun group of colors....I pulled it out and left it on the stairs so when i got up this morning I could start in on it...Its finished...odd how the blue one only took four hours and this one took about 5 and a half hours....

To make the dreadlocks

The dreadlocks are made by knitting in a stitch...pulling the stitch out twice as long as you want the dreadlock and twisting it. Then you fold it back onto the needle and knit it off....knit a few stitches and make another one...you could also make them short and make twiggy things all over the hat...oh no is there another hat coming on!!!


Now to shower paint a picture and have some more company over for New Year...Chick flicks on the menu and some pomengranate martinis!!!


....maybe tomorrow I will post pictures of my dreadlocks scarves I made earlier this year and did not blog....

Happy New Year


from Maggie in SC following the southern tradition of spending the day doing what she wants to do for the whole year...thats why i have to paint!!!:>