Some January Headwear Makes

     Hello everyone, how’s it going? Hope you’re doing well!

     As the title says – just got some headwear makes to show you this post, a hat and a headband, so let’s get to it! First up, this hat.

     This hat didn’t exactly go to plan. First off, I started it on a 2×1 rib which is one of my favourite knit rib ratios to do because I like how it looks when it stretches out on the head but it doesn’t exactly lend itself to nice decreases. Usually I would just knit a tube, cinch it in at the top and add a pompom to hide some of that bulk. I wanted to make this a slouchy beanie without a pompom though so I tried to do decreases in this one. It didn’t really work. Eventually I had done enough decreases that it was a 1×1 rib and from there I started to just knit all around, instead of knits and purls but turns out that that drastically changes the size of my stitches – it looks like I went down several needle sizes but nope, just knitted all around instead of alternating knits and purls for a rib. Also, I knitted it too short so it’s not slouchy.

     So many fails with that hat.

     My crochet headband was much more of a success.

     I had gotten one ball of this yarn on Hobbii as I was curious about how it would feel and be like to work with but there’s not a whole lot you can make with a 50g ball of shiney yarn like this so but I eventually remembered that headbands are thing so decided to try make one with that common twist. Turns out it’s a lot easier than it looks! Might make headbands more of a go to from now on when I have some yarn leftover I want to use up.

     So those are some of my makes from this month. Successes and fails but you know, it’s important to show failed makes I think so we can all learn from them (in this case, just keep knitting and add a pompom at the end). What have you been making this month?

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