Knit Baby Squash Hat

Early this season, I mentioned a few of my knitting goals.  One of which was to learn how to knit in the round.  I am by no means a pro, and my stitches leave much to be desired, by I have successfully completed two baby squash hats that are knit in the round.

I used some cream peaches n' cream yarn, and followed the pattern outlined in 101 Designer One Skein Wonders, by Judith Durant.  The pattern calls for circular needles, but my only set of circular needles was too long for this particular project. I ended up learning how to work with double pointed needles....which took a bit of getting used to, but wasn't all that difficult to pick up.

 

One of the biggest difficulties for me was  keeping my tension uniform as I worked around the circle.  I don't think that this yarn is ideal for a beginner project when knitting in the round, it really doesn't camouflage the tension issues at all.

I love this little hat.  It is intended for newborns,  but I'm guessing that it will only fit newborns with small to average size heads.  There's no way that Clark would have fit in it.

Are you interested in learning how to knit in the round, or use double pointed needles?  You can check out the youtube instructional videos below.

Thanks for reading.

Free Knitting Pattern Round-up

 I don't know what it is, but for some reason it is engrained in my mind that knitting is a winter craft.  I have designated October through March as knitting months.

It was just last year that I convinced myself that I needed to learn to knit.  I still don't knit well, and I'm not to the point where I could care at all about obtaining proper gauge, but it has definitely brought me a sense of satisfaction to begin to learn a new craft.  Last year I knit several scarves, and began work on an afghan (which is still in progress).

I am terrified of knitting anything that has any shaping to it, but I have dared to tackle Yarn Overs and Slip Stitches.  I'm pretty pleased with myself.  I think that I'll continue working on square and rectangular shaped items for now.  I just completed my first knitting projects of the year.  What was it?

Wash clothes of course. These were the first wash clothes that I've made, and they are so far from perfect, but I finished a project.  It also allowed me to get back into the hang of knitting and allow me to work on my tension.

The wash clothes come from a pattern found in this book, 101 Designer One-Skein Wonders, by Judith Durant. It was a very good project and pattern to get me back in the hang of things.

I do have hopes of knitting a hat or two this year, but we'll see if I can ever get the hang of circular and double ended needles.

I thought that I'd do a bit of a round-up of free knitting patterns....just in case some of you  are in need of a new project.  All of these patterns were found online, and the photos can be credited to the source. For the link click on the pattern title. For the full list click read more below.