Monkey Socks and a Hat

I have a tradition of knitting a hat/scarf for my niece and nephew for their birthday. This is the hat I made for my nephew Nate's 13th birthday. I have to admit that coming up with a hat that a 13 year old boy will like was harder than I thought! I finally chose the Little Cables pattern in a nice chocolate colored wool, I hope he likes it.

And I'm still working on the Monkey Socks. As much as I love this pattern, I'm getting pretty sick of it! I had to frog it back again this weekend. Since the whole 2.5mm needle vs. 2.75mm needle debate was never settled by me, I continued on and ended up running short of yarn. I was just about to the toe decrease when I determined that I just would not have enough. Hhrrrrmmmppphh. So back to the frog pond I went. I decided to decrease the number of lace repeats on the leg from 6 to 4. That should give me enough to complete the toe. And yes - I could have just gotten another ball of yarn - and I did consider that. But at $6.50 a ball, these would have been some darn expensive socks!

And try as I might, blogger will just not cooperate with uploading pictures right now. I promise I'll edit this post later and include the pictures of the hat and socks. (Heck I had a hard enough time just getting to type this post!)

ETA: Got the pictures up.....it's all hunky-dory now!

Knit on!

Just Right......

After the last hat, DS was very concerned about the size of this one. Thankfully it fits!

Next up are pink mittens for DD!!

Too Big

So when DS and I went to DD's preschool to drop her off this morning, I noticed that his hat was too small to cover his ears. Considering it was 0 degress outside, this was important to note.

No biggie, I figured. I would just knit him a new hat. I found a super simple pattern online and started it up. It called for a thick yarn knit on DPN's sized 9-11. Since I have DPN's in 10.5, that's what I used. I knew after casting on that it would be too big - it was that obvious, but I kept going since I don't have anything else on the needles right now *gasp*

I figure I'll pick up some size 9 DPN's this weekend and make another.....and it should fit this time!! So here it is.....very cute, but very big.

Knit on!