Couple of weekends ago I decided I wanted to make a hat. I had been reading Knitting Workshop by Elizabet Zimmermann, and in it she has a hat in the beginning to teach the basics of knitting. I thought I'd pick up a point or two, which I did, although I don't remember at the moment. It called for thick yarn and I grabbed bulky weight yarn on 6mm needles. Actually it was supposed to be worsted on 4.5 (or thereabouts). So the hat was too big.
I did the rational thing and threw it in the wash. The color bled of course, it's red, red almost always bleeds. Plus it's a Knitpicks yarn (wool of the andes bulky) and they have a reputation for bleeding. I can't believe how well it felted though (Knitpick yarns also have a reputation for felting well, even if they are superwash!).
It fits quite good now. A little short, but not too much.
This weekend, however, I was obessed with Hyperbolic planes. Normal Euclidean plan is flat but a hyperbolic plane curves.
The first one I made was too big. I used too big of a hook (5.5 mm instead of 4.5), but it is perfect as a washcloth.
The second one looks great. I was hoping it would turn out to be more of a bath puff, but it is rather a decoration (hang it up in the kid's room?) or a playtoy. They like playing with it K. put it on a stick like she had caught it in the sea ;)
K. also requested one out of variegated yarn white/purple/pink. It ended up as a barbie hat ;)
This was fun. Now I have some laundry to take care of :o
4 comments:
Flott húfa!
Hvað ætti maður að kalla þessar skemmtilegu krúsidúllur sem þú varst að hekla á íslensku?
Hýperbólískar sléttur eða eitthvað þvíumlíkt ;)
Where did you find the hyperbolic plane pattern? It is so neat!
Well, here is a very mathematical one. http://www.math.cornell.edu/~dwh/papers/crochet/crochet.html
(it is just below Figure 2)
or this one for more simplicity http://melisasriwulandari.blogspot.com/2008/06/tutorial-hyperbolic-crochet.html
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