Blanket FO, Hat Frogged and Hail!

I finished the Look for Happiness baby blanket for an expectant mother in my church. :). Hope she likes it. It was a very enjoyable knit, not complicated, but enough “need to pay attention to one of the rows” to keep your interest. I found it a relaxing knit. πŸ™‚

On March 19th we had a little hail storm. I thought it was just a really heavy rain, until I saw these (2nd picture) on my balcony!!

I had the hat finished that I was working on with this skein of yarn I (that I had finished spinning for the 2023 Tour de Fleece) but was not satisfied with the hat at all!! The yarn was too thick and the needles I had gone down a couple of sizes, trying to compensate for the yarn weight, were a size or two to small and made it too dense and it was still to big and the cables didn’t show well. So I frogged it, sorry I never did get a picture of it. The yarn is a light bulky (because it’s a tweed) and the pattern called for a dk weight. I have chosen another pattern but will probably still have to adjust it, or maybe just keep looking for a better pattern.

Hope everyone is safe with all the crazy weather, take care, be safe!

10 thoughts on “Blanket FO, Hat Frogged and Hail!

  1. I love how that blanket turned out! The color is so pretty there is not a mom in world who wouldn’t love to receive it!!!

    Hail??? It’s spring! Send that weather North!!

    I have seen bulky/tweedy hat patterns in my travels, I am sure you’ll find something appropriate!

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    • LOL, north sent it down to us, I’d love to send it back!! Fortunately we don’t get hail very often, we get more snow. I tried to catch hail once in my grandmother’s straw hat, lol, you can guess how that went :P.

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    • We don’t get hail very often either, maybe once or twice a year. Thank you for your comment on the blanket, it really was fun to knit. I will definitely knit another one.

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