I created this hat in Mid-December. I was inspired by several Fraggle hats I have seen on the internet, but due to the thickness of the yarn it doesn’t really look like those. Instead, it reminds me of Raggedy Ann, and thus the name 🙂 It’s made of one skein (every last inch of it!) of Colinette Marshmallow in the Fiorentina colourway. I have a small head and no hair and thus the hat fits my 20″ head, but for an adult size you’d probably need more yarn if you want it to be double knit.I made a 12 inch/30 cm long rectangle by double knitting on the long pink Knifty Knitter loom with the figure 8 wrap. I used the lucet cast on. I then took the rest of the yarn and cut it into 6 inch/15 cm lengths and used those pieces to close up the sides, tying in square knots. If you wanted to make this for a larger head (most adults would need a larger size), I’d use the yellow loom and do more rows, but really you can make a long rectangle any way you fancy!It took an evening while watching TV, don’t know the exact timing. I’ve ordered three more skeins to make a matching scarf because I looooove this yarn!
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Happy Hollydaze
Not much crafty goodness to report over the holidays, but enough to warrant a wee post 🙂  I got two new rubber stamp inkpads on sale, in royal purple and peacock blue (two fave colours) on Boxing Day.  On the 27th we hit the sales, and in that we went to Fenwick (didn’t like anything and didn’t notice anything on sale), John Lewis (where I bought 16 skeins, all half price) and the yarn stalls in Grainger Market (there are two, but they’re the same company, all very cheap but mostly acrylic).  From a cheap skein from John Lewis I made a basic loomed hat that evening, but it was for my hostess so I didn’t get a photo of it as I gave it to her within minutes of it being done 🙂  It was very basic anyway, you’re not missing anything…
 I’ve also finished the first of my experimental armwarmers, using the horrid yarn that came with the Reader’s Digest loom kit.  It’s working out for my purposes, but I will alter the design for t’s armwarmers.  Still, it is good to know that I can do them on the Knifty Knitter round blue loom rather than having to do them as flat panels.  I will finish the other one of mine in the next few days, then move on to his.  Then I will post patterns for both.  I’m just making things up as I go along but since I hadn’t found any for that loom before I thought other people might be interested in seeing how I did it.
 Other than that, not much crafting happened, but I need to seriously get cracking as I have a medieval tunic to make in the next week!Â