The santa fe style thick and thin bulky handspun yarn I’d bought from Colorado Sandstone Ranch confounded me for two years. An enticing mix of colors in a wool that wasn’t as soft as merino but was squeezy and fun, this yarn was one of my first purchases as a knitter. I didn’t have a project in mind, just “want!”. And I tried to use it a few times, but frogged it every time, because, let’s be honest, what can you REALLY do with about 130 yards of thick and thin wool?
Until urchin.
And then I was completely inspired. And whipped this up. I love how it stripes vertically! Very cool.
Picasso loved it. Maybe a little bit. Tiny bit.
He’s obscenely cute. I might have taken something like 60 pictures of him lolling on the hat.
The hat ended up too big for me (I knew that, the whole time, but I wanted to make the biggest size to see how much too big it would be, I like hats with some ease). Guess who adopted it all on her own and pretty much said THIS IS MY HAT without, you know, me offering it or anything like that?
Yeah. She loves it.
I *love* the colors and the hat! A perfect pairing of yarn and pattern!
I think the hat found its perfect person!
Aw, the gramma! She is SO CUTE in that hat – it was meant to be. Sorry, Picasso.
The striping on the hat looks great. The kitty on the hat looks great too.
Clever title, adorable Picasso and lucky gramma! You may have to knit Picasso his own mini-urchin
Thanks, btw, for pointing me toward an option for my thick-thin handspun.
The hat is perfect for Gramma! And why didn’t you offer it you bad thing you?
Picasso is so adorable on Urchin. Off Urchin, for that matter.
I adore the crossed paws, and Gramma looks rockin in her new hat! Maybe Picasso wants a kitty-pi.
How cute is Gramma in that hat! It must have been hard to wrestle the hat away from Picasso
Picasso has good taste, but then, so does Gramma.
It IS the gramma’s hat!
Gramma and Picasso are both awful cute!
Your grandmother looks adorable in that hat — it was clearly meant for her. And Picasso definitely needs a mini-urchin!
My goodness. (Hi grandmother!) – the yarn finally met its match.
Cuteness! Love kitty! Love gramma!
How serendipitous that things worked out! Perfect pattern/yarn combo and a lovely recipient. Love the striping/triangles, too. : )
So cute!