Literally...
I've been itching to knit this hat since I found the pattern in a book LindaG sent me last year.
It's the top-down 'Swatch-less Watch cap', with the ribbing starting right at the top. That means that the lines of ribbing subdivide as you increase the number of stitches, and you have to follow the pattern very closely as each line is different! Aargh... at one point you add a marker every six stitches, and in theory the number of stitches in each section should always hatch. The trouble started when I checked a few rounds later and discovered that some sections had six stitches and others had seven. Half an hour's tedious 'tinking' and knitting later and order was more or less restored.
This is the book;
all the patterns, even the teddy bear, are knitted in one piece... mind-boggling. The Swatchless Watchcap is the simplest.
The sock pattern starts at the heel and sort of grows into a sock shape. Mind-boggling. I know, I've already said that. But it is.
Now, what is this mucky page of watercolour destined to become?
The bobs of colour have been created (?) Perhaps 'applied' is a better word, by adding water to the painty mess on my watercolour palette and blobbing it on the page. It's the wrong sort of paper too. Oh well. It's just a play a doodling. Not important.
Here's a clue;
this is a monochrome experiment on my kindle scribe. Lucia Leyfield, the artist who offers the free 'winter trees' video was more 'intentional' in her tree doodling than I was. When I add the trees to the blobs above I'll try and be more 'intentional' too! The results are surprisingly satisfactory for such little time and deliberation.
So sad to hear that Prunella Scales has died*. I loved her as Miss Mapp in the first Mapp and Lucia series. She was so good; if she had read the telephone directory she would have been enthralling.
* (I have a deep-rooted loathing of the phrase 'passed away', and even when it is abbreviated to 'passed'.)
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