The Simple and Seamless Baby Beanie

My heart leaps when I see clever and tidy decreases.   One of my favorite hat patterns, The Man Hat, is a beautiful example of decrease love at first site.  I have made this several times as the whole pattern is as excellent as the decreases.  The Man Hat is an excellent gift.

This morning, on Ravelry, I saw a lovely little garter stitch hat.   It is simple.  It is elegant.   The crown shaping decreases are, for me, engaging and a siren call to work on this project.

Maria David Castro's
Simple and Seamless Baby Hat

The Simple and Seamless Baby Hat is free on Ravelry...in both English and Spanish.   This is definitely on my "to do" list.   I may have yarn for it. (Cough, cough).   Yes, garter stitch can be tedious but it is an excellent way to showcase a wonderful yarn or a spectacular color.  Test driving the pattern to try out the decreases is a real draw for me right now.

Ravelry changed the knitting part of my world.   Now it is so easy to see what other people are doing....and how creative minds approach knitting in interesting ways.   Trolling patterns on Ravelry is one of my favorite ways to get through a knitting slump. Everybody has them....

My friend, Marjorie, sent the "anti-negativity" picture to me this week.   It came on a day when I really needed to laugh.   I liked this so much that I called my friend, Phyllis, and read it to her.  She laughed hysterically.  Later, Phyllis told me, she laughed about it all day.  Neither of us will admit to the full extent of our yarn stashes.  Neither of us seem to be able to stop adding to our stashes.   If we can't die until we use all of our yarn, we will live forever.  Time to go look at more patterns for the yarn I have.