Some gifts did not get done in time. I just got behind in my knitting. M&M, my nephews in North Carolina had to wait to get their gifts. They were also getting hats and scarves. Because the hats are quick, I started with those. I figured that I could make the hats and send them off, finishing the scarves as I could and mail them when they were finished too. One likes Green and one likes Yellow. I decided to make them the reverse of each other. One hat would be green with yellow stripes and the other would be yellow with green stripes. I was quite proud of my cleverness because yellow and green are also their high school colors. I finished them and got to looking at them and they REALLY looked like Oregon Ducks hats. That wouldn’t be a bad thing (actually I am not sports driven and didn’t think about it until one of the knitting ladies mentioned it. sigh.) My brother, M&M’s father, went to Oregon State… Beavers. I HAD to do something! I decided to ‘frog’ down to the stripes and fix this. Just to double check, I went online and looked up the school colors. Not yellow and green like I had been assuming, but green and white. OK then.
Here are the two hats with the green one frogged down past the yellow stripes. I started with the green hat because the fix was pretty simple and it would give me time to think about what I wanted to do with the yellow hat. For the green hat I would just replace the yellow stripes with white ones.
Here is the green hat all reworked with the white stripes. This appears to be a good solution. I will mirror these changes in the scarf, when I am able to get to it.
The yellow hat rework is a little different. The hat is going to be yellow, that’s all there is to it. But I also wanted to work in the school colors on this hat too without it screaming Oregon Ducks. I also saw that I had partially dropped a stitch (or split the yarn) a few rows below the stripes. Since I was already frogging down past the stripes, what is a few more rows?
The other hat is green with two white stripes, but it can also be looked at as a green hat with a white stripe, a green stripe and another white stripe. So this is what I decided to do on the yellow hat too. A white stripe, green stripe and another white stripe.
Because I am so far behind with this gift, I am going to wrap them up and mail them off. The scarves will follow when they are finished.
On that note, I’ve already stared on them…
As long as I can complete this much each day, I should be able to finish both scarves by the end of January. I will be happy with at least that much progress.
The hats turned out great! Sorry about my duck comment. I’m particularly aware of duck and beav colors because my daughter and son-in-law are rivals!
I had already determined that they were too “duck-ish”.