As much as I love just looking at, petting, and photographing my own handspun, it’s come to my attention that one can also actually knit with it, too! Imagine that!
So I did.
Here’s my sweet baby James playing his birthday guitar* (Epiphone John Lennon acoustic electric from Utah’s own Guitar Czar) and wearing his birthday hat on—get this—his actual birthday.
The pattern is called Boyfriend Hat, but don’t let that put you off. Stephanie Nicole designed it for her boyfriend, but you can knit it for anyone you like.
The fiber is Wasatch Watercolours BFL in Spring Violets; it is unbelievably soft and squooshy.
James told me about the following exchange:
STBXSO: I like your hat.
DS: Thanks. My mom made it.
STBXSO: I really like the yarn.
DS: My mom made the yarn, too. She has a spinning wheel and she makes her own yarn from wool fleece.
What an absolutely darling boy. Heh.
Do you think my STBX’s Significant Other is duly impressed with my mad crafting skillz? Or perhaps she just thinks I’m a pioneer, now. That’s prolly it.
*The guitar is honestly and truthfully thanks to Rabbitch. She’s decided to undertake, personally, spreading the blessed juno love all over Canada, and ordered some soap for her Rabbitworks Fibre Studio. Her order came at just the right moment, and made James’s birthday guitar a reality.
After all, I couldn’t let the boy continue to visit the store just to take the guitar off the wall and play it whenever he got the chance, could I? Well, yeah, I guess I could have. But I’m glad I could bring it home instead.
Comments 9
Great hat! Knitting with your own handspun is wonderful and having it loved and appreciated is even better.
Posted 14 Mar 2008 at 4:07 am ¶Don’t you just love when your loved ones talk about your knitting skills in any sense. I made a racerback tank top and wore it to a party. A girl says that is a really cool top. I say thanks and leave it at that. My husband pipes up that I made it and that I have made some other really cool shirts and it really doesn’t take that long. I was flabbergasted. He has never mentioned liking the fact that I knit or even commented to me about a finished project. But he gushed over it to this girl. I was thoroughly pleased!!
Posted 14 Mar 2008 at 4:34 am ¶You’re the best mom!
Posted 14 Mar 2008 at 4:59 am ¶What a great hat made by a great mom!! Watch out–girls go mad for men who play guitars. (I’ve got personal experience in this department.
)
Posted 14 Mar 2008 at 5:56 am ¶You rock! As, clearly, does James.
Posted 14 Mar 2008 at 6:16 am ¶You’re a wonderful mom - and James is a wonderful son. The hat is beautiful - and you can even see the “squooshiness” in the photo. Great job!
Posted 14 Mar 2008 at 7:49 am ¶I want to have this same relationship with my boys when their that age. It’s just so sweet.
Beautiful hat.
Posted 14 Mar 2008 at 8:53 pm ¶2 great gifts. Both works of art.
Posted 15 Mar 2008 at 12:18 pm ¶Happy Belated Birthday to your DS!!
Yes, I am. Beautiful colors, woven in such a way that one wants to dance, smile and appreciate the intricacies of it all…for an intuitive, sweet/strong man on his 18th bday - stepping, dancing, singing into his next season of life….Ultimately, the heart warming appreciation (aside from the beauty of the cap) and love that shows through for your son…
Posted 29 Mar 2008 at 10:23 pm ¶Post a Comment