Sherwood Hat
It is very difficult to photograph a black hat.
Pattern: Sherwood, from Knitty, in hat form
Yarn: Plymouth Galway, knit tightly on size 4 needles.
I really like the Sherwood pattern. Really, really like it. But you should check out the charts – that’s crazy talk! The whole sweater is charted out in one massive chart! There has to be a better way of representing what is essentially a repeating stitch pattern.
In any case, I turned the cute sweater into a hat. I cast on 14 pattern repeats, staggered the cable action and voila! A hat! A fairly large hat, suitable for my brother’s big head. I knit this super-tightly so that it will be nice and cushy – his last hat was knit from Lamb’s Pride Bulky, so it was super warm for those Buffalo winters.
Is that photo above too dark? How about this one:
Not much better. Silver digs the hat, though!
I made my first ever knitted object out of Galway – a 2×2 ribbed scarf for Rob. It turned out a bit too short (the cheapo me didn’t want to splurge for another ball of yarn) and I mistakenly purled the stitches through the back loop. I had bought this ball of Galway for a pair of gloves, which I never got around to knitting. It’s wooly and tweedy and lovely and I would definitely use it again.
This is the last of the holiday gifts – I previously knit two pairs of socks for Rob’s parents and a lacy scarf for my mother. I don’t know how people can blow through a pair of socks in 5, 6, 7 days. I just don’t get it. It seems like they take me forever. Never again! But I’m now done, so yeah! No last minute gift knitting this year!
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Fantastic….. Love the color.
Very nice – I love the tweedyness! It seems like it would be a much smaller chart – not sure why they did the whole sweater…
I love your hat!! The tweed’s great… I’ve got some felted tweed I should play with for a hat for my kid soon. Thanks for the inspiration :)
Looks great! And I can actually see the cables quite well in your pictures.
Hat looks awesome! The other thing about Sherwood is if you take the charts and try to paste them together–they don’t line up!
I love the Sherwood sweater pattern and your hat interpretaton is sheer genius! I may have to make one for me when all this holiday knitting stuff is over.
Oh wow, that looks amazing! I especially love the tweed yarn. Very creative adaptation of the sweater pattern :)
Love.that.hat!!! The yarn is fabu! My favorite is the pic with Silver checking it out. Curious kittys are the best!
I love the hat! I have been looking to make a man hat for my hubby but unable to find a pattern he likes- or that will fit his head(24″!). Hmmm..