Carla Fredd

Contemporary Romance Author

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Nautilus Hat…DONE!

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I’m done! I’m done!

I really like this hat. I should. I’ve knitted it at least three times and produced one wearable hat. The Nautilus hat is a very simple hat to knit but I’m still a relatively new knitter so I made mistakes. The first time I knitted the hat the yarn was the wrong type. Who know cotton doesn’t give? The next time, I used wool blend yarn and it was too big but this one was just right. The only change I made to the pattern (besides my own mistakes) was to knit the band using double seed stitch.

I’ll post pictures tomorrow.

Quietly working

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I’m plugging along on the Nautilus Hat. I should finish it this weekend and I will post pictures then. I’ve made this hat twice already. The first time, I used the wrong type of yarn. It was cotton and well…it wasn’t pretty. The hat was more of a pancake.

Nautilus Hat wrong yarn

The second time I made it, it was too big. I hope like Goldilocks, this hat is just right.

I cut out the pattern pieces for McCall’s 5522 view A.

McCall’s M5522

I’ll start on it this weekend. I’m going to make a muslin first. I plan to learn how to match stripes with this pattern. It should be interesting.