Okay I know I said that I live in the midde of Canadian nowhere, but apparently there are nowherier places than nowhere. About a month ago Ryan got called to work out of town in a tiny little butthole town called Fort.Saint James. It's still in B.C., but it's much farther north. When he went up, I went to stay with my mom, I do better business where she lives anyways, but after a month I missed Ryan so bad I couldn't stand it anymore. I had to see him, I also really needed to get laid ;) so I booked a 15 hour red eye bus up, and here and I am in a dingey, low end motel, in a town that I'm not allowed to walk around in by myself. I'm exhausted, there was too many weirdos on the bus for me to relax, I slept only about 2 hours(with one eye opened) and once I got off the bus in prince George, Ryan picked me up, and it was another 2 hour drive to Fort.Saint James. I know it sounds awful, but tbh I've been here for two days and I'm really enjoying the alone time, I'm so so very introverted. I get the whole day to myself, just crocheting(I packed almost nothing just so I could fit as much yarn as possible in my bags) and then Ryan comes home at night and we have the room to ourselves, we drink beer and watch movies and do other things;)
I've been working non stop for the last month, making good money and getting my name out there. So I decided to take this opportunity to play with some yarn that I just liked the colour and feel of, just crocheting for fun, not for profit. There's this amazing pattern called the Stepping Texture Hat from yarnspirations.com, I've tried it before but this time I wanted to modify it, so here's what I did.
This blog might be a little sketchy btw, the WiFi signal here sucks and it's taking so long to get this done.
Anyways, the first thing I changed is that instead of using Bernat softee chunky(which is what the original pattern calls for) I used Bernat softee baby chunky, it's much softer so the hat is floppier.
Second change was the brim, since the softee baby chunky is stretchier, it had too much trouble doing the brim in slst, so I did all SC. Also used a 6mm hook. So here's my pattern for a slightly floppier version of the Stepping Texture Hat.
This hat is worked from the brim up
To begin row 1. CH 7 with 6mm hook. Turn and SC into second chain from hook and in each chain across. 6SC.
Row 2. CH 1, SC into Both loops of first stitch, SC into blo in next 4 stitches and SC into both loops of the last stitch, 6 SCs.
Repeat row two until it is the size you want, mine was 47 rows and 19.5 inches.
Attach the ends and slst together
Once attached, SC into each row around, I messed up at this part because you need the SCs to be in groups of 5, obviously 47 isn't gonna work, so I added a couple stitches in the end so I had 50 all together.(if this isn't making sense, check out the yarspiration page for original pattern, there's also a video on YouTube for the original)
I then followed the exact pattern from the yarspiration page for the rest of the hat. I think it looks so much nicer with the softer yarn, I love this hat so much, I might even keep it.
So that's what I've done so far. The cleaners of this motel(a local husband and wife team) are so nice that I thought I might make them a each hat just to say thank you. The only other thing I've accomplishedsince geting here, is drinking about a thousand Budweiser's.
I promise my next post will be a heck of a lot better than this one, once I'm back home with decent WiFi.
This blog might be a little sketchy btw, the WiFi signal here sucks and it's taking so long to get this done.
Anyways, the first thing I changed is that instead of using Bernat softee chunky(which is what the original pattern calls for) I used Bernat softee baby chunky, it's much softer so the hat is floppier.
Second change was the brim, since the softee baby chunky is stretchier, it had too much trouble doing the brim in slst, so I did all SC. Also used a 6mm hook. So here's my pattern for a slightly floppier version of the Stepping Texture Hat.
This hat is worked from the brim up
To begin row 1. CH 7 with 6mm hook. Turn and SC into second chain from hook and in each chain across. 6SC.
Row 2. CH 1, SC into Both loops of first stitch, SC into blo in next 4 stitches and SC into both loops of the last stitch, 6 SCs.
Repeat row two until it is the size you want, mine was 47 rows and 19.5 inches.
Attach the ends and slst together
Once attached, SC into each row around, I messed up at this part because you need the SCs to be in groups of 5, obviously 47 isn't gonna work, so I added a couple stitches in the end so I had 50 all together.(if this isn't making sense, check out the yarspiration page for original pattern, there's also a video on YouTube for the original)
I then followed the exact pattern from the yarspiration page for the rest of the hat. I think it looks so much nicer with the softer yarn, I love this hat so much, I might even keep it.
So that's what I've done so far. The cleaners of this motel(a local husband and wife team) are so nice that I thought I might make them a each hat just to say thank you. The only other thing I've accomplishedsince geting here, is drinking about a thousand Budweiser's.
Beer and scribbled patterns
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