double knitting works!

Reversible!! Magic!! Beauty!! Long stripeys!

Double knitting ISN'T all that scary after all. One would think that three days of meetings might yield more progress, but... there are multiple layers going on here.

long stripey

Be still and KNIT!

Yay Knitting!

Since I'm not really posting the spiritual stuff so much anyway, let's bring in the knitting!

It'll at least make the knit-along easier to be part of!

A double knit hat is two hats in one-- double the thickness, yum yum! Now that I'm urban, I spend more time outside, (does this seem ironic to anyone else?) and I need a better hat.

So a double knit hat. I want long up and down stripeys like I found in a book of hats and mittens from Maine traditions. But I'm lazy to find that book, so I'll make it up as I go. Which makes progress slower.

So in the meantime, I finished a scarf to match, also long skinny stripeys. I'll post a photo soon.

It's harvest colors, real cozy and soft. I'll use the colors in the hat, and a couple more, and hopefully it will look coordinated. It will be long stripes something like this (one stays constant and one mutates)

H=H=H=H=H=H
H=H=H=H=H=H
H=H=H=H=H=H
H#H#H#H#H#H
H#H#H#H#H#H
H#H#H#H#H#H
H+H+H+H+H+H
H+H+H+H+H+H
H+H+H+H+H+H

The challenge being that I'm using up lots of old yarn, which is all a little unusual, and has all different textures.

I'm headed to four days of Central Committee, and I've got my hat recipes packed, and lots of needles, and a whole lot of courage mustered to figure out how to double knit this hat.

I hope I figure out enough before the meetings start so I can knit in good conscience-- not getting too caught up in patterns to pay attention to the meetings.