Misti Alpaca Hat

Needles: US 8, 16" circulars and set of double points

Yarn: Misti Alpaca Super Chunky in Azulichen

A wonderfully comfortable hat to wear both in the yarn and the size. It will fit most adults.

Pattern: Misti Alpaca Hat

by Christina Moran

Using a long tail cast on, cast on 104 stitches to a 16” circular needle, place marker, join in the round and begin ribbing as follows:

Ribbing: *Knit 2, Purl 2, repeat from * around to marker. Repeat this row until ribbing measures approximately 1” from the cast on edge.

Work in Stockinette Stitch until the hat measures 6” from the cast on edge. Transfer stitches to double points. Begin decreasing as follows:

Row 1: Starting at marker, S2KP2 (slip 2 together knitwise, knit 1, pass both slipped stitches over the knit stitch), knit 10, * S2KP2, knit 10, repeat from * across row.

Row 2: knit

Repeat Rows 1-2, 4 more times (8 stitches on the needles)

Leaving an 8” tail, thread a tapestry needle and slip all the stitches onto tail yarn purlwise. Pull taught and weave in tails.

Backyard Leaves

Pattern: Backyard Leaves by Annie Modesitt

Source: Scarf Style, Interweave Press

Needles: US 5 straights

Yarn: Angel Soft Organic Baby Alpaca

I held three strands of yarn together for this project. It is ever so soft and wonderful. I can't take it off!

A New Dolly

It was time for a new doll in our house. The doll this is "replacing" was made with a poor choice of yarn hair, which is more than a little sad to look at these days. Her skin is stained with chocolate and bleached by Color Wonder markers. I am quite happy with this one, it is my favorite hair choice yet. She got a new outfit too :)

Toe-up Socks

Pattern: my own

Needles: US 1, 40" addi's

Yarn: Mountain Colors Bearfoot in Juniper, one skein

This yarn turned out wonderfully. They are soft and comfy and feel quite fluffy for their thickness. I have two more skeins sitting around, so they may be finding themselves turned into more socks soon.

Stockings

Here is the full set of stockings as they hung this year. I'll knit the final one sometime before next Christmas. There might be an additional little one for our cat Raven too someday.

This is the first one I made. I found it gorgeous at the time, but now I wish I had used the white for the snowflakes instead, so they would stand out as well as in the other red stocking. I think this one has the nicest proportions and overall shape.

This green one is the most recent addition. I like the contrast to the other two, it breaks up the red a bit. The fourth will be in the green as well.

All of these were knit with a very uneven yarn, so the Fair Isle irregularities are intentional.

Pattern: The Chubby Sock by Lynn Gates

Source: Christmas Stockings, Interweave Press

Needles: US 5, 16" circular and dbl points

Yarn: Adrienne Vittadini Nadia in 804 and 805 (red and white yarn)

mystery white mohair held together with white Nadia

mystery green tweed for background to snowflakes on red stockings

ShiBui Highland Wool Alpaca in Highland Seaweed (main green in green stocking)

Christmas Stocking

Alpaca, wool and mohair stocking lined with velvet. This is the second in a set of four, the last still needing to be cast on.