{"id":1283,"date":"2011-09-09T20:56:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T19:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2011-09-09T20:56:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T19:56:24","slug":"train-hat-1-urchin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1283","title":{"rendered":"train hat #1 – urchin"},"content":{"rendered":"

See train hats – the plan<\/a> for the background to what I’m on about here.<\/p>\n

A long, long time ago I knit Ysolda Teague’s Urchin<\/a> out of some very expensive yarn from Stash in Putney. I didn’t mind that it cost a lot – it was beautiful yarn. It bobbled in a sophisticated way, included shades of blue & purple, and was just… beautiful. The pattern was ideal for the yarn.<\/p>\n

So, I made it. Short rows were a new thing for me, and I wasn’t really au fait with how to “read” where you’d turned on a previous row, so ended up doing it quite quickly – according to Ravelry, about 4 days.<\/p>\n

Then I tried it on, and like most hats those days, I thought it made me look like an escaped mental patient. Or an undiagnosed one.<\/p>\n

So I offered it to my mother, who wears hats and has a smaller head than me (comments on a postcard, please). She wore it, and she wore it lots.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_0380\"<\/a><\/p>\n

When she died 18 months or so ago, I took it off Dad’s hands and tried it on again. Strangely, it didn’t look that bad on me any more. Almost as though she had worn it in for me…<\/p>\n

Not long ago I came across this project on Ravelry<\/a>, and was totally inspired to have another go at Urchin.<\/p>\n

So, when it came to making a train hat, I wanted to give at least one of them an Urchin – and it’s as much an excuse as anything.<\/p>\n

Originally I thought Angie, but the yarn I found was more of a Diane\/Bella colour scheme.<\/p>\n

\"work-in-progress\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I made this in one looking-after-the-children day during the summer holidays. To be fair, it was finished quite late at night and had Australia <\/a><\/em>not been quite such a long film I might have taken it to day 2…<\/p>\n

All done, I couldn’t wait to take a picture straight away..<\/p>\n

\"all-done-late\"<\/a><\/p>\n

See? It doesn’t really work, does it?<\/p>\n

Here’s the one my Dad took in better light.<\/p>\n

\"all-done-daylight\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I still have a plan for Diane, so\u00a0this\u00a0one is in the bag for Bella – I hope you like it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See train hats – the plan for the background to what I’m on about here. A long, long time ago I knit Ysolda Teague’s Urchin out of some very expensive yarn from Stash in Putney. I didn’t mind that it … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-train-hats-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}