It's all Greek to me!

Well I finished the Greek hat and it turned out better than I expected! First of all, the challenge was what to do with all those gold yarn tails. I wove them into the hat but found that they showed through on the right side when the hat stretched so I pulled them out. I decided to knot them. I knotted two together, then took one and knotted it to the next one and so on until I got to the last one. It created a row of what looked like a vertical garter stitch or something. Typically I wouldn't do this inside a hat because I'd be afraid that the wearer would be able to feel it, but Bird has such thick hair that he would never notice! It may not be the "right" way to handle this situation, but it turned out okay.

And here's the finished product!

Harley is definitely confused! I've never known a cat to willingly go into a carrier, but he loves sleeping in the new one that I bought for Mikey. When he's not in there, then Sammy is. I guess that will change if they ever take a trip to the vet in it!

I have started Maddy's Fetching Mitts using the Frog Tree Merino that I bought last weekend. It is interesting yarn. It is one ply and loose--almost like roving. I'm used to using yarn with more of a twist. This is really soft stuff though. I think they will turn out very comfortable in this yarn!

Fair Isle Faux Pas

So I started Bird's hat which looks really good from the outside. It's the inside that is the problem. I didn't think about the implications of doing a fair isle design on just a section of the hat. I carried the gold yarn in back but when I get to the end of the Greek letters, I can't carry the yarn around the hat! I ended up cutting it and leaving a tail to weave in later. That means that I will have a tail of gold yarn at the beginning and end of each of the 15 rows of the design! I wonder if there was a better way to do this! Maybe I could have wound 3 bobbins of yarn and used one for each letter, letting the bobbin hang. Then I would just have to cross the gold yarn over the 10 or so stitches back to the beginning of the letter for the next row. Does that make sense? I'll just have to see how the inside looks when the tails are all woven in!

And here is what the right side looks like so far!

I'll post a photo of the finished hat tonight!