tattooofhername

Made from this pattern



It's just not quite right, is it? I mean, I know Stef has a slightly larger than average skull, but still. Not right. Kind of cone-shaped, which is WRONG. I followed the pattern to the fucking letter as well. Just ignore the stripe wonkiness. No matter what I do, I always lose count.

Somehow, I don't think my sister followed the pattern faithfully, since her hat was nice and round and y'know, the right size, and mine came out cone shaped. So, I'm doing what I always seem to end up doing and making shit up as I go along with take two. Also, BIGGER NEEDLES. When in doubt, use something bigger.

It's about twice that size now, and I only took that picture yesterday evening. Experimenting with a pattern Kate sent me.

I did it! I started something really, really complicated, I screwed up a couple of times, and then I fucking carried on and got it right and stuff. I don't normally do that. I normally chicken out the second something looks problematic. Ok, so I had to make a lot of this up as I went along, which could be called as skirting the problematic stuff by doing it my way, but whatever. I did something!

Pictures tomorrow, when I'm not dying of the heat and can be bothered to find the camera cable.

Also, I'm gonna stop knitting for a while. I don't care if it's a life and death thing, I am NOT knitting again until I stop dreaming about dropped stitches and Revenge Of The Purl [don't ask].

It's probably a bad sign when you show someone a knitting pattern and the first thing that comes back is 'that's a terrible pattern'

So, that 'over my head' thing?

One side of stitching to do, and my second knitting project of the year will be DONE, and I can move onto something bigger.

Pictures will be posted tomorrow, once all is complete.