Fri 11 Sep 2009
This yarn is definitely asking what it should be.
Ekgheiy says a hat. It would make a great hat. And I could really use a hat in Madison this winter. Half of my brain is cheering loudly for a hat.
The other half? Muttering about how I never wear hats.
(The other side just chimed in to say that I’d better start wearing hats if I’m planning to live in the Midwest in the winter. It’s probably right.)
So I’ve been wondering. If I were to wear a hat, what kind of hat would I wear?
Not a beanie.
Not a skullcap.
Not one with a pom pom.
Not a cloche.
Maybe a tam? Or a beret?
I’ve thought about making tams before. If I were to become a hat person, I’d probably start there. Branden makes a funny face every time I mention them, though.
Then again, he used to make funny faces about coconut, olives, dates, and a variety of other things that he now likes. The face might not be a very good indicator.
Still, I keep getting a nagging feeling that this yarn might want to be more than “just†a hat. It looks like I will have enough for something bigger, too. When I finished it, I wound it back into one skein, and there’s a lot of yarn there.
(This cat was added partly for scale and partly because I couldn’t keep her out of the picture. She was determined to get her blog time. Wouldn’t want her sister to get all the attention, now, would we?)
The yarn has also been whispering something about lace.
So I’m dragging my heels. Waiting for the right moment, the right project. Sauntering through the stitch dictionaries, idly kicking ideas down the fiber-strewn path ahead, wondering what will be.
Not sure I'd be much help as I am not a hat person myself. I have knitted myself two hats, but that's cause I need them to survive winter. I don't LOVE hats though, so a yarn that yearned to be more than a hat . . . I probably wouldn't make into a hat. See, not much help.
The yarn is right. Lace – either a shawl that can wrap around your head and shoulders (great for Midwest winters) or maybe a wimple (kind of like a hat, but Lace!). Listen to the yarn!
Well, you're talking to the wrong person, because I almost always hear my yarn saying "lace". And (not surprisingly) your yarn is saying "lace", too.
As someone who has had to live with Midwestern winters (although I doubt NE Ohio is as bad as Wisconsin…), I can assure you that you don't absolutely *have* to wear hats – last winter, I doubled up one of my wool shawls and found it quite as warm to wear over my head as anything I've ever tried. My ears were quite toasty! (You will want something for your head/ears, regardless of what you choose.)