Notepad #3

For Christmas, my sister gave me some yarn she spun herself. I think the fiber is from one of our llamas, but it might be from a random bag of sheep wool. I decided I'd make another beret with it, because the first one went so well. I'm a poor judge of how much yarn a project might take, because I haven't completed the cable motif (I stole the pattern from a sock book my sister received!) and I only have enough yarn left to do another round or so. Hat fail. 

I've been promised more yarn, but I expect it'll be another Christmas before this project is finished. So I don't forget in the interim, it's taken me about eight hours to get this far. And that's with learning how to do cables and reading a knitting chart and making a few counting mistakes along the way.

Anyway, when the hat gets finished, I think it would look lovely with a sweater from this pattern. It always looks so cute when Solanah of Vixen Vintage wears hers. I'd need a slightly lighter-weight yarn, the gage for the sweater (8 sts = 1 in.) is double the gage I have in the beret.

Deep V front cardigan pattern

Chunky sweater

Henritta Maria

Agatha