{"id":1392,"date":"2011-11-13T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2011-11-13T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T16:29:00","slug":"red-hat-and-gloves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1392","title":{"rendered":"red hat (and gloves)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just at the moment I can’t seem to stop making things for other people. Some of them are Christmas gifts for people who read The Blog, so have to stay under wraps for now (expect a blogging cascade in January when all has been revealed!), and others are for people whose receiving-things occasion hasn’t come around yet… And that’s not even including the train hats which as we all know are an entirely different kettle of bananas altogether!<\/p>\n

My latest project is for someone who knew she was getting something, but didn’t know what.<\/p>\n

This friend Tracey is someone who (of course) I barely know. Steve has met her husband “in proper life” as the kids would say, but I’ve only communicated with her by Twitter. Of an age with me (I think – possibly a bit younger) she is having to attempt to survive breast cancer a second time. A couple of weeks ago she blogged very movingly about losing her hair<\/a>. Again. And how she thought she was prepared for it, but actually wasn’t as prepared as she had hoped.<\/p>\n

So, me being me, I offered – in a not-intending-to-be-especially-charitable kinda-way – to make her a hat. She said deep red would be lovely (as a fellow labour party member, could she really have said any other colour??!?).<\/p>\n

So, I searched out an appropriate pattern… and plumped for the Cayuga Set by Connie Chang Chinchio<\/a>, a designer whose work I have quite a lot of on my ravelry faves list…<\/p>\n

At the first opportunity (Wednesday morning) I dashed to my LYS and bought appropriate yarn. I’ve gone for King Cole Comfort Aran in deep red (shade 336). I got 2 100g balls because although I was only intending to make the hat at first, I didn’t want to limit my knitting choices…<\/p>\n

And sure enough, by the time I was dropping the children off at Dad & Gill’s on Thursday evening, I was ready to do the sewing in.<\/p>\n

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I really like this hat. I may have to make another one. I think the style and colour possibly suit me as well. And I like to think it shows a certain solidarity with Tracey if I’m wearing an almost exact copyhat. Plus, I showed it to my friend Lorna who went straight home and cast on a set for herself.<\/p>\n

So, since the yarn was there anyway, and who\u00a0doesn’t\u00a0like a matching set I went ahead and made the mittens. They’ve come out looser than I’d like gauge-wise but hopefully will still act as a warm-ish layer.<\/p>\n

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So, here you go, Tracey. I have every confidence you’ll get to wear them to shreds.<\/p>\n

Update: I’ve been so long getting the photos of this off the camera that Tracey’s beaten me to blogging about it<\/a>. The hat looks a lot better on her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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