In the last weeks before Christmas (and before New Years, I was running late) I knit eight hats, and the hats were all I knit. Morning, noon, night, hats, hats, hats. I’ll show you pictures another day when I can stand to look at them, but the important thing to know about that little streak is that now I am so tired of hats that I’m feeling the occasional urge to slap them off the heads of strangers.
During the last of the hats, I comforted myself by lining up two projects I was going to start the minute it was all over, and when I say that I lined them up, I don’t mean that I sort of thought about what it was going to be and kept them in my mind. I mean that I took the yarns out of the cupboard, got the needles, organized the patterns and put it all right next to me so that it was literally lined up. I’d knit a hat for a bit, then reach over and pat the reward yarns, quietly mumbling eloquent things like “^%$#%ing hats.”
I started too look forward to the reward knits so much that I worried that maybe I was making too much of it. I wasn’t. I started both of them, and I love them – Wild Wolves – I had a kit that I bought at Knit East. It’s entirely charming, knitting up quickly and delightfully not hatlike at all.
Also not a hat? Bonfire. I’ve been dreaming of this one for a while – I ordered the yarn ahead so that I’d have it, and I’m so smitten. It’s Freia Fine Handpaints in Flare, and a solid to go with.
It’s not often that I use the yarn a pattern calls for – I’ve got a big stash and I like to use it, but this yarn is so perfect for this pattern that I couldn’t imagine anything else. My hat free life is so perfect.
I am never knitting another hat.