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Last weekend hubby asked me to knit him a beanie, who am I to disagree?
He requested khaki/olive colour with a cotton thread - natural, warm and soft
As a good wife, I headed straight for the shop and bought a lovely khaki cotton 'wool'.
Of course when I got home the only pattern I could find was for a thicker wool and I didn't have double pointed needles or circular needles in the smaller size I needed.
I haven't knitted a beanie for a few years so needed the security of a pattern, so I knitted it flat in a basic rib and loosely based it on a pattern I had.
The seam didn't look too bad and can be worn either way, which is good as it's long enough for a brim.
He even requested a label - who am I to disagree?
One week later the finished beanie emerged and he seems happy with it, he put it on straight a way, but I couldn't get him to model it
For my reference I used:
4 ply cotton
size 3 needles
cast on of 159 stitches with a 1x1 rib
Now I've got my beanie rhythm going again I will try and branch out with the pattern on the next one, which is apparantly going to be dark grey!
Thank you for popping by
Vicki
Love it. Will he model it for his mother-in-law?
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