Meathead - July 18, 2010 07:08
- By: NoisyPenguin
It is the complete wrong season for this hat. I'm not sure there's ever a right season for this hat in San Diego, but if there is, I promise you summer is not it. It's been in the 90s and super humid...so of course, I thought, "Hey, I'll make that hat that uses bulky wool!" This is the Meathead Hat.
Miranda made one of these for her daughter awhile ago and I admired it every time we saw her wear it last winter. I kept meaning to ask her for the pattern, then I failed, then it was too hot for me to even think about putting hats on Mr. Poop.
Meathead from the side.
But then, while I was knitting the cupcake hat for the baby, Mr. Poop asked if it was for him. "No, it's for the baby," I said. "Sometimes when I knit I'll make things for you, and sometimes I'll make things for the baby, and sometimes I'll make things for Mommy or even someone else."
Aerial meathead view.
He thought about this for a moment, then said, "Okay. Maybe sometime Mommy make Will a hat. Maybe an orange one? Okay. Mommy make Will an orange hat." How could I say no to that? So I made a Meathead. I had several colors of the Lamb's Pride Bulky that the hat calls for, so I let him pick one out. I completely expected him to go for orange, since he'd mentioned his orange hat a few times since we initally talked about it, but he decided on red.
Meathead from the back.
It took me about an hour to knit and another half hour to sew up and add on the buttons, and I used yarn from my stash, so even if he only wears it a few times before he outgrows it, or even if he decides that he does indeed want that orange hat we talked about, I don't feel like it was a waste of time. And come on. How cute is this?
Mr. Poop seems to like it.
Pattern: Meathead Hat, from Knitalong by Larissa Golden Brown and Martin John Brown.
Needles: Size 15 straight
Yarn: Lamb's Pride Bulky, in Spice, from my stash! (It's always exciting to use stash yarn. It's like, hey! Free hat!) (Yes, I know I paid for the yarn at some point. But that was like, three years ago.) (Oh who am I kidding. It was more like 5 years ago.)
Notes: I truly thought that holding two strands of bulky yarn and knitting them on giant needles was going to produce something monstrous and weird, and that surely I was reading the pattern incorrectly. I was not, and it turned out fine. Also - you could knit this in the round if you have the proper needles. I would have preferred to do this (as I hate finishing), but I already had size 15 straight needles and I'm cheap, so I just sewed up the back. I think the sizes on the pattern run a little small - Mr. Poop is 2 and has an average-sized head for a 2-year-old, and the child size is snug on him. (I do have a fairly tight gauge when I knit, but even if you don't, I doubt you'll get the child size on a kid much older than 3 or 4).
The pattern includes adult sizes. I kind of want to make myself one, though I'm wondering if the adult large will be big enough for my average-sized adult head. (At least I think it's average-sized.) (Please don't tell me I have a pinhead or a giant head. When the eye doctor told me I had "freakishly small eyes" it messed with my self-esteem, as I had spent 26 years of my life up until that day thinking that my eyes were totally normal.)
Tags: knitting crafty
It is the complete wrong season for this hat. I'm not sure there's ever a right season for this hat in San Diego, but if there is, I promise you summer is not it. It's been in the 90s and super humid...so of course, I thought, "Hey, I'll make that hat that uses bulky wool!" This is the Meathead Hat.
Miranda made one of these for her daughter awhile ago and I admired it every time we saw her wear it last winter. I kept meaning to ask her for the pattern, then I failed, then it was too hot for me to even think about putting hats on Mr. Poop.
Meathead from the side.
But then, while I was knitting the cupcake hat for the baby, Mr. Poop asked if it was for him. "No, it's for the baby," I said. "Sometimes when I knit I'll make things for you, and sometimes I'll make things for the baby, and sometimes I'll make things for Mommy or even someone else."
Aerial meathead view.
He thought about this for a moment, then said, "Okay. Maybe sometime Mommy make Will a hat. Maybe an orange one? Okay. Mommy make Will an orange hat." How could I say no to that? So I made a Meathead. I had several colors of the Lamb's Pride Bulky that the hat calls for, so I let him pick one out. I completely expected him to go for orange, since he'd mentioned his orange hat a few times since we initally talked about it, but he decided on red.
Meathead from the back.
It took me about an hour to knit and another half hour to sew up and add on the buttons, and I used yarn from my stash, so even if he only wears it a few times before he outgrows it, or even if he decides that he does indeed want that orange hat we talked about, I don't feel like it was a waste of time. And come on. How cute is this?
Mr. Poop seems to like it.
Pattern: Meathead Hat, from Knitalong by Larissa Golden Brown and Martin John Brown.
Needles: Size 15 straight
Yarn: Lamb's Pride Bulky, in Spice, from my stash! (It's always exciting to use stash yarn. It's like, hey! Free hat!) (Yes, I know I paid for the yarn at some point. But that was like, three years ago.) (Oh who am I kidding. It was more like 5 years ago.)
Notes: I truly thought that holding two strands of bulky yarn and knitting them on giant needles was going to produce something monstrous and weird, and that surely I was reading the pattern incorrectly. I was not, and it turned out fine. Also - you could knit this in the round if you have the proper needles. I would have preferred to do this (as I hate finishing), but I already had size 15 straight needles and I'm cheap, so I just sewed up the back. I think the sizes on the pattern run a little small - Mr. Poop is 2 and has an average-sized head for a 2-year-old, and the child size is snug on him. (I do have a fairly tight gauge when I knit, but even if you don't, I doubt you'll get the child size on a kid much older than 3 or 4).
The pattern includes adult sizes. I kind of want to make myself one, though I'm wondering if the adult large will be big enough for my average-sized adult head. (At least I think it's average-sized.) (Please don't tell me I have a pinhead or a giant head. When the eye doctor told me I had "freakishly small eyes" it messed with my self-esteem, as I had spent 26 years of my life up until that day thinking that my eyes were totally normal.)
Tags: knitting crafty
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