Those teeny hats are super cute! What a clever idea.
I delivered 12 loom-knitted hats to the library's giving tree last Thursday. I'm still working on hat #13 because I decided to do another adult XL size and those take much more time than the child size.
It doesn't help that last night, when I was within 2 rows of finishing, I found a mistake 3 inches back.
Sigh. The mistake did not affect the usefulness of the hat nor would it have pulled out or caused a problem with wearing it. Nevertheless, once I saw the misplaced stitch, I couldn't un-see it. It isn't about perfectionism because my knitting stitches certainly are not perfect; I don't have enough knitting practice yet to make nice, even stitches. I just don't want something I've made to go out into the world with such an obvious mistake, even if it's only obvious to me ... even if it's going to be given to a stranger.
So last night before I went to bed I carefully pulled out the 3 inches and got back to the place before the mistake happened. I do like the pattern on this one, and I'll save the instructions to use again. I'll try to finish this hat before I go back to work Thursday so it can be given away with all of the rest of them.
Reading back in the thread, I see I missed a question from
Harmony about sizing the hats. Since I'm still new to loom knitting, the only control I have over the finished size is by using different looms and different weights of yarn. I own the XL size round loom, and I borrowed a set of smaller round looms from a friend. The ones I've done with the child size loom all ended up different sizes because I used different patterns for each one, and sometimes I doubled the yarn. (Using 2 strands of yarn as 1 makes the hat thicker and warmer, but also makes it smaller.) I figure some people like their hats loose and slouchy, others close-fitting, so they'll have to try on and see what feels good to them.
After I'm done with this 13th hat, then I will switch over to sewing. I have several works in progress, in various stages of completion.
Incentive = At our last sewing group meeting, we were each given a school composition notebook and asked to use it as a sewing journal starting January 1, 2019. At the end of the year, we will compare journals and celebrate everyone's fun with fabric.
I have decided that I can only write in my sewing journal after I have finished a project.
Since I'm going back to serving as president of the group again, I probably should set a good example and actually do some sewing ... you think?