Spitting Yarn

…goes the refrain in one of Spike’s favourite books, and one of my least favourite. It has become an expression of shock / dismay / disappointment / sympathy in the Spitting Yarn household.

I employ it today with reference to a rather typically Spitting Yarnish occurrence. In April of last year I was knitting a rather fetching hat in Koigu. The monotony of the straight section on sock-weight yarn caused me to down tools for, oh, eight or nine months. I rediscovered this project a couple of days ago and would love to complete it, BUT I don’t know what pattern I was using.

The sheer doh-ness of this event recalls oh-so-many others: the time I left my cello at the bus stop, the seventeen pencil cases I left on the bus (why I felt the need to get my pencil case out on the bus so frequently is unknown), the time I mixed up those important papers at work (I feel sick just thinking about it). I do seem to have got slightly less absent-minded with age, but clearly I’m never going to shake it off entirely.

Anyway, I can’t find a paper pattern in the house, I didn’t list it in Ravelry or mention the pattern on here.

It seems a rather generic beret with no particular design features, so I don’t think anyone is going to recognise the pattern. This leaves me with the “winging it” option. I don’t suppose someone with more knitting acumen than me might be able to give some pointers on how to finish it? I do know it was intended to be quite slouchy, so I imagine I should knit the straight section for a good few inches, but when it comes to the decreases, I am clueless.

I’ve been knitting quite a lot recently. Hats for a new baby (not mine, I hasten to add), a jumper for Spike and those secret things I alluded to. I have also done some Gocco-ing and have some general plaintive moans about the whole Gocco situation (please will some kindly business angel purchase the damn company, before the supplies bankrupt me). I will pull it all together into a proper post in the next few days. Promise.

A photoless post is poor form, so Spike says Happy New Year!