untonuggan: A hand-drawn/colored lovely little creature with a knitted cap and piles of yarn behind it knitting a scarf (knitting creature)
Slip Stitch Slouchy Hat Pattern

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Honestly I wrote it down because I invent lots of hat patterns, and often for people who don't need a 20" hat (because all the stores sell 20" hats!) and some people I know want to knit some of those hats and I figured I should just share the instructions and maybe not just give them a page full of scribbles and arrows.

So yes! It is pretty now and has both charted and written instructions, and I tried to make them as easy to read with brain fog etc as possible. And also printer-friendly so you wouldn't get weird line breaks halfway through a pattern repeat and accidentally leave off that bit of the pattern, and also underlining important things like "add a stitch here."

FWIW I really whole-heartedly endorse Uptown Worsted (an Acrylic). Usually I cannot deal with acrylic and am a huge wool snob, but this stuff is amazing and soft and sells for under $6 a ball at my LYS.

Hope you enjoy. Feel free to share, it's under a Creative Commons Share-Alike Attribution license because honestly I'd be chuffed if someone felt like selling some of these on their Etsy shop or whatnot and chucking a few dollars towards Doctors Without Borders.
untonuggan: A black-and-white photo of a Victorian woman (victorian lady)
So I've taught my mom how to knit (mostly) successfully. She's working on a hat for kids getting chemo. I'm so proud of her for attempting knitting in the round on her first project since she was six and knit a dishcloth in school. For those who are interested, she's using this pattern (without the color changes).

So far it's going well and she's enjoying it, despite a couple of false starts (one of which was my fault. Don't ask. It's still painful/embarrassing.)

Note to self though: If you're helping someone on their first knitting project while you are knitting yourself, it's easy to mess up the pattern every time said person goes, "Oh no! I think I might have dropped a stitch!"

I'm making a companion hat to my scarf, which is going okay so far, though I am still nervous about the size despite doing a swatch like a good knitter.

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