It’s weekend time again. Phew. It’s been crazy and wonderful around here with all the visiting family and celebrations but we are needing a weekend to get back to a schedule, catch up on sleep and think about getting back to school. We’ve been very generous with our homeschooling vacation and now it’s time to refocus.
I’m trying not to over plan this weekend but it’s filling up already with dinner dates, crafty ambitions and catching up with friends. I’m hoping to squeeze some knitting in and maybe even some sewing (barring any surprise house showings). I’m even planning a little surprise for you lovelies next week to celebrate my first blogiversary (Woot! Woot!).
Along with my plans I’ve been browsing Ravelry for hat and mitten patterns as I joined another knit along over at luvinthemommyhood . If you’re not familiar with Ravelry, it’s an online database of knitting and crochet patterns. Just sign up for a free membership and browse to your heart’s content. My problem at this point is not with finding patterns I want to knit but with choosing between them. So as I’m agonizing over them already I thought I’d share a peek at some of my favourites. Maybe you can help me decide?
1. grove 2. mitten cuffs 3. leftover 4. gradient 5. fiddlehead 6. endpaper
7. isidora 8. polska 9. fallberry
1. windschief 2. thistle 3. ql slouch 4. norby 5. jane 6. honey hat
7. a hat fit for a boyfriend 8. lina 9. from norway with love
See my dilemma?! Do you have any suggestions for me? I’m looking to knit a hat for my mom as well as for my hubby (who said he’d rather a sweater but is getting a hat for the time being). I’m hoping I can squeeze in a pair of mittens for myself. And it’s all gotta be from stash wool because I have some busting to do.
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How are your plans shaping up for the weekend? Will you be out and about or staying close to home? Visiting with loved ones or cozying up for some quiet time? Do you have crafty ambitions as well? Either way I wish you a very beautiful weekend! Be sure to stop by next week for my little surprise!!
#3 and 8 in the mitten department and #8 hat are fantastic! Happy knitting!
Oh it is a hard choice. Hat (not for husband): norby. (hmmm…I’ll have to add that one to my list) Really all the hats are great and look relatively similar (except for cabling pattern): tight-fitting. The mitts are another matter. You’ve got a mixture of fingerless and fingered. It probably depends on whether or not you want to keep your fingers toasty (and how much time you have to spare) I like the grove for fingered – it reminds me of Bella’s Mittens (I printed this one out). Bella’s is free! For fingerless, Falberry or Gradient are nice. But again, ALL of them are lovely.
Hope you are able to get in as much as you hope for and more (and a little rest, too) this weekend. Getting back into homeschooling can be tough.
Oh, Bella’s mittens are nice too…this is not helping me decide! I’m all over the place with the mitts (as you noticed). I think I need to start simple and then plan for one of he trickier patterns.
Thanks for the wishes – hope your weekend is going well!
The fiddlehead mittens are on my list this year. I have done bits of colorwork, but I would love to try these mittens (or the flocked ones from the same designer). I made my hubby a turned square hat from Jared Flood one year. He liked that one. I like windschief for his next hat, so I would pick that one. (For me, I want to knit Norie)
I am hoping to organize a bit, sew a quilt or two and knit this weekend. Also, our family hasn’t hiked this season and I am feeling a bit stir-crazy about it.
Oh, I do hope you get out for some hiking – although sewing and knitting sounds like my kind of weekend, too.
I’ve admired the square turned hat – forgot to add it to this list. I love the windschief hat, too!
Oh I see your dilemna. Sorry I can’t help all them are so nice and inspiring me into knitting more crazy projects. Can’t wait to see what you come up with.
For now I’ll be knitting and crocheting away on a couple of aghans this weekend. It’s going to be a cold one too.
What better way to stay warm!
I don’t think this is helping me decide…I love them all!
Now you have me wanting to cast on another project. I love the Polish pottery inspired mitten cuffs!
I knit six boyfriend hats as gifts this past Christmas and must say that all my guy’s love it.
I have a four day weekend and am hoping to knit a lot! My oldest son’s birthday day is next Saturday and I am not finished with his gifts. The sacrifices a mother must make! Yes, I will knit all day for my son! 🙂
Oh yes, the sacrifices we make. Knit on, dear Tracey! 😉
Isn’t Ravelry such a wonderful time suck? I just finished a pair of mitts and am now working on a hat. I couldn’t decide which ones to make, so I went out on a limb and tried to design my own. The mitts were a success, but the hat is still a work in progress. Cross your fingers!
I’m leaning toward Grove Mittens and the Thistle Hat.
oh goodness, they are all fabulous so it’s hard to decide. But the ones I thought I would go out and buy were the endpaper gloves & norby hat. So that’s my two cents!
can’t wait for the surprise next week for your blogiversary!
My hubby has 3 of the boyfriend hats number 7 I think. Said it is the best hat pattern ever. I make it with the recommended extra inch and it is perfect for covering ears for the upcoming -32 degree weather we have due tomorrow….
Have a great weekend!
Brrr, our unseasonably warm temps are set to plummet this weekend as well. Sigh, we knew it was coming. Stay warm!
Thanks for the tip on the hat! I’ve had one of those planned for a while now but haven’t gotten there yet.
ooooh…I might have to join this little knit along. Hm…i think number four for mittens for you(second down on the first column.) BUT i really like the middle ones on the bottom too.
and for hats…i’d say number six for Dan (3d down on the first column,) and the one right next to it for your mumsy.
oh how fun, i love these kinds of ‘problems’. you are so sweet to add these photos as well as the links. i hope looking at them this way helps you to decide. they are all lovely. i think i am off to favorite the endpaper gloves now. thank you for sharing rachel!
oh and my weekend, no work (yay!) and time with my husband. and definetly a time to knit. 🙂
I love the fiddlehead mitts the best! I have a friend that knitted them and they are better in person. Don’t you love ravelry?
Oh yes, Ravelry is wonderful and terrible…. 😉 I do really love the Fiddlehead mittens, I think they are my faves – I’m wondering if they would be a bit bold for my first attempt at colourwork, though…
Oh so many choices! How could you decide? I’m stuck at the hospital all weekend…have fun.
Oogle oogle drooool. I have knit the boyfriend hat for my husband and he loved it. Personally I love the norby hat and the endpaper mitts!! Good luck choosing, anything you knit will be lovely!!
xo
endpaper, lina. but, holy cow! what lovely links of love. thanks for sharing. now i have the same dilema!