~ Knitting Red Caplet & Bicycle Hat ~
Two knitting projects - which I completed months ago - that I wanted to direct everyone's attention to are a red caplet that I made from a pattern in this book and a bicycle hat that I knat during my trip to Portland from a pattern that I developed all by myself. The red caplet isn't anything astonishing, but I did thoroughly enjoy knitting it. It's made from some cheapo very soft and snuggly TLC Amore yarn and on my person, looks something like this
While I was in Portland several months ago, I visited this amazing yarn shop adjacent to a coffee shop, devoted entirely to the practice of knitting. In a bin, I located two shades of green Peruvian merino wool. Because I enjoy the act of knitting and because I enjoy sitting at coffee shops, I knat this hat over the weekend at various Portland coffee shops. The bicycle pattern is fair isle and I modeled it directly from my Gary Fisher Tassajara, which explains why it looks more like a mountain bike than a generic stick figure bicycle. The next time I make one of these (and it is quite likely that I'll make a road bike version, and maybe a cruiser, tandem, unicycle - - hell, I could have a whole line of bicycle hats to sell!), I shall make the tires less pronounced.