Okay, I finally finished a knitted object. A hat. It's made with Wool-Ease, a mostly acrylic yarn with a little wool thrown in. It's in the washing machine now.

The next thing I knit will be wool. Acrylic is nice for gifts cause of the easy-wash aspect, but when you have sweaty hands like me, the sweat increases the coefficient of friction of your acrylic yarn pretty quickly, making knitting a much harder operation than it has to be. Wool will absorb some of the sweat (ew, I know) making the knitting go smoother. I knew there was a reason I liked knitting with wool better. Plus, wool is more elastic than acrylic, and the stretching of loops that goes on in knitting is a little easier.

The hat is my own design. I start with the Schlegel diagram of a polyhedron. Then I turn that into a 3-D entrelac. Then I add cable stitches. Done right, you get a sort of  garter-stitch entrelac overlaid with cable stitches that look like continuous Celtic knotwork. I like complicated knitting.

In this case, I miscalculated the cable crossings, so rather than the seamless, continuous cable that I was going for, I got something a little kludgey. Also, the hat's sort of bumpy, but that comes with the whole Celtic-knotwork garter-stitch entrelac polyhedron thing.

I am more of a knitting engineer than a knitting artist/craftsperson. My creations are interesting rather than beautiful. I really need to team up with a more design-y kind of person.