There’s a Squatch in These Woods…

It’s fall! Its also Halloween! In honour of the best day of the year, I knit up this super cute bigfoot knit hat. My husband loved watching Finding Bigfoot, so I thought it was a great gift to make for him. It is a variation of Wooly Rhino Craft’s hat.

Bigfoot Chart Found here: Wooly Rhino Crafts

What you will need:

• two colours of yarn (you choice, worsted weight)
• size 3.25mm double pointed or 16″  circular needles (for the ribbing)
• size 4.5mm double pointed or 16″ circular needles (for the hat)

For my hat, I cast on 96 stitches, working 1×1 ribbing in the round for about 1 inch. I then began the pattern.

 

Enjoy, and happy squatchin!

The Infamous Star Wars Scarf

May the force be with you!

Last year I started this scarf as part of a Reddit KAL, but I shelved it for a few months. Partly due to my own frustration with the pattern (I was struggling with the text) and partly because the yarn I decided to use made watching paint dry seem more fun than knitting. As you can see, the original pattern had text but I kept making mistakes with it and gave up. I eventually picked it back up, frogged the text portion, and carried on. The first one (seen in purple) took almost a year, but the second one I knit up in a little over 2 months.

This was my first go at double knitting. I was nervous but once I got going it it was like second nature. The upside is theat there is no tension problems like in intarsia or fair isle!

 

Pattern can be found here: Not a Nice Dragon

You will need:

• 2 colours of yarn (your choice of colours and weight)
• straight or circular needles (your choice of size)

*the size of your scarf will depend on the size of needles and yarn weight. I used size 2.75mm and fingering yarn for the purple scarf, but 5mm and worsted yarn for the black scarf. You can really tell the difference it makes!

Interested in double knitting? See this text how-to or this video how to!