Can I tell you something I appreciate about winter this year, my 45th year of being a human? Wearing hats. Yes, has are lovely and a wonderful project and a fun way to play with color and pattern. But when finished, they also cover your gray roots! And I can wear them all winter, indoors and out, and look cute and cover my graying hair before I have my next color appointment.
Hats shown (my current rotation) are from former SSYC Hat Sets. This month's selection are now in the Kits & Clubs section. And I have some really cute ones planned for Valentine's Day coming up! Left is the Copycat CC Beanie and right is Wurm. Two of my go-to patterns and both free. The brim on the Wurm is a bit fiddly, but the doubled up fabric really does help keep the hat in place. Highly recommend doing it as written and not a simple rib.
I'm poking fun at myself right now, as this is meant to be lighthearted. But really, it has become a bit of a bother when the weather keeps changing every other day from 10 degrees to 55 degrees and I can't rely on my hats to cover my mismatched hairline. Why can't the weather stay consistent for awhile in the Midwest? And before you tell me I can just go gray and stop dyeing my hair.... mmmmm hmmmm, I know that's an option. But that's not me yet. And I'd just like to instead gripe about the weather changing.
So I'll continue making and wearing hats because I know my natural color isn't going to get brown again. And I know that I neither have the time to get to the colorist every 4 weeks, nor do I want to go gray yet. Le sigh.
In other hat-related news, for those in our Hat Club, your second month shipment left the building today and it's striped and I LOVE IT SO MUCH. And Ysolda Teague supported it with a pattern. Yes, the Ysolda. Yes, I just shouted at you. But it's worth a shout. So if you're in that club make sure to check your email later today for your pattern. If you're in the sock club too, that one is like10 times bigger than the hat club and takes more time and will ship next week. We usually ship clubs mid month but our holiday break and other things put us a week behind this year. Thanks for being patient with us!
Knit a lighter weight hat in a cotton yarn for those warmer days. 😀 I wear my hair very short (a baby step from buzzed) but don't keep it up as well as I should. Those light hats see me through that awkward stage.
Posted by: MarthaO | January 20, 2023 at 02:05 PM
I have three hand knit hats I have made the past few years, and you have to have the pom-pom. Love my hats :-).
Posted by: Donna Norris | January 20, 2023 at 02:10 PM
I love to knit hats. I’m not sure why - maybe because you see results so soon. But then the other things I love to knit are socks which take longer to see results. Maybe there’s just something about small projects that appeals to me. Or (& I suspect this is closer to the truth) I love to knit both socks & hats because they require little to no finishing. Could be why the Wonderful Wallaby is my favorite sweater to knit.
Posted by: Donna T | January 20, 2023 at 02:48 PM
I'm in my mid-40s and get the occasional gray in my strawberry blond hair. I love knitting hats but haven't made many in the past year because I keep knitting socks!
Posted by: J | January 20, 2023 at 03:43 PM
I'm addicted to knitting and wearing the pompom hats. I live in the Bay Area of Northern California and it's cool enough almost all year to wear a hat. I also love the self-striping knitting of socks. Needless to say I have an abundance of both and wear them most of the time. I was out to breakfast just the other day and a woman stopped at my table to tell me she loved my hat. Not only made me so happy but I got to tell her I knitted it myself.
Posted by: Susan Hill | January 20, 2023 at 05:11 PM
I'm seconding the comment that, clearly, you need to knit yourself some more hats--sockweight, laceweight--to cover the full range of your temps. There's a great shop where you can get all kinds of sock yarn ... ;-)
Posted by: Carol | January 21, 2023 at 12:38 AM