Bucket ‘o Buckets! & Wishes Really Do Come True!
Three Bottom’s Up Bucket Hats from ChicKnits
Left: Heilo Dalegarn, Right 2: Lamb’s Pride
I didn’t realize I did this, but I made these in value order from light to dark, LOL! The first one I finished knitting a long time ago and discovered it was going to be too small for my sister’s thick hair and then she finally got back to me on what grays she liked and I found out she wanted darker. So… It was onto the second one and then the third for my mom.
I’m not huge on making gifts for people as often they aren’t really appreciated unless it is for someone else who at least has an idea of the cost and time it takes. However, my mom and my sister requested bucket hats when I was home in June and I let my mom wear my cream no-felted one when we went to the lake. So, I knit them ones. And, to add an element of surprise to it, I decided to knit them each something to go with it - the scarf for my sister and the convertible mittens for my mom (I have the one to go and then I’m done with gift knitting and can get going on my Christmas stocking).
I’m done with bucket hats for a while. At least until I forget how touch knitting the brim is on my hands! I love the final product, but I can hardly knit more than one round on the brim in one sitting and then I have to take a break. And, not just from the brim, but from knitting completely!
I thought I’d go to SIL3’s house to use her top loading washer to felt. But got to thinking that transporting the hats on whatever I was going to use to block them on was not going to be an easy task. Plus, she’s pretty busy so I was unsure about when I could get over there to felt and I’d like to have the MN package sent on Friday or Saturday if at all possible. So, I decided to give our front loading washer a try. Well, it worked. It took about 30 minutes of agitation, but they felted to the needed size. Yeah! So, they are on my dining room table drying on inverted glass canisters - the flour, the cornmeal and an empty one that I think usually holds our gingerbread mix we usually have mixed up by now. It’s kind of surreal looking, LOL! I’ll take a pic tomorrow when I have better light again (clouds rolled in while I was felting).
This morning I also had *the* best mail day! I had several things awaiting for me when I got to my PO box. But, the best was a box with some of my wishes fulfilled by Knitlette!
That’s some papers for collage, two gorgeous beaded stitch markers, two black jelly bracelets, two great Origins body souffles in my absolute favorite scents - FretNot and GloomAway, the fabulous sock yarn that I can’t wait to start turning into another pair of socks, and some fun fiber. Whee!
I’m soooo touched by this sweet gift! The body souffles are just in time as I ran out and have a little of the shower gel in one and a little of the bath gel in the other. And, I’ve gotten some serious dry patches in the last week or so!
This was the perfect pick me up after the amazingly looooong work day I had yesterday. Thanks, Abby, you are a sweetie!
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Hi! I love your blog! I wanted to order the bucket hat pattern
from chicknits too. Is that the Aran Gauge pattern? I just want
to make sure before I order.
Comment by Lily — 12/8/2004 @ 5:18 pm
your hats looks great! I made some buckets hats last year and am thinking of doing some more. How is your front loader? Are you able to stop it in mid cycle to check the felting? I also have a front loader and it cannot be stopped once it gets going. The buckets I made last year also took a while to felt, so it wasn’t an issue, but I wonder if that is always the case
Comment by ann — 12/12/2004 @ 8:14 am
Hand Knit Bucket Hat Finished.
This knit up fast. And it’s cute. (At least, I think so.)
I made my hat larger than Rosemary’s machine knit hat and used a yarn warm enough to ward off Chicago’s wintery blasts. Of course, since I wrote a pattern generator, any yarn can be …
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