This is some Corridale by Spindlefrog, in the Artichoke colourway. According to etsy, I bought it almost a year ago, and it was spun up and skeined up about two days after it arrived.
From then on I loved it, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do with it.
So I just looked at it alot, and took it out and hugged it.
Yesterday I saw this hat by Cosymakes, and suddenly I knew what my lovely handspun skein would become!
Within a few hours, my skein was balled up…
and I spent yesterday evening watching Nigel Slater’s Simple Suppers (and Real Food – which I have, taped off the telly years ago <3), happily knitting away.
(Aside – I LOVE Nigel Slater and I’m so happy that he’s back on tv. I think there is a post about this brewing…)
There really is something wonderfully satisfying about knitting a hat bursting with autumn colours on warm 4.5mm needles. It is proving to be a simple but joyful break.
Thats lovely! I am spinning mad at the moment and that looks like a great knit for handspun.
That handspun looks just exactly like a carpet of fall leaves–it’s so gorgeous!! (I’m making a fall hat too, almost that same plummy purple you’re also using, and with beads(!) . . . hopefully it will be cute and not over the top. 😀 )
I like your new blog look and your hat looks lovely. Lx
A fellow fishie here. I just love handspun and that hat is gorgeous.