Mini Archie’s April Furtle Around The Blogosphere
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Furtle (v): to have a rummage or delve into the contents of something Hello! Well I finished the socks I started in February: Yarn is West Yorkshire Spinners ‘Wood Pigeon’ (864) And then I knitted a hat! It was in a Christmas Eve box from Lucy Locket Land which a friend passed to me so I knitted the hat and sent it back to her as a surprise. I knitted it as per the pattern (for a medium head) but when I tried it on to check, it was like a pea on a drum and wasn’t convinced it would fit a teen let alone an adult so I pulled back the crown decreases and did another three pattern repeats. Fortunately, it fits my friend even though she has a smaller head than me. I have 45g of yarn left so there’s probably another hat like this but without the fold up brim in my future, which is nice because it was a lovely yarn and pattern to knit. Pattern is Taconite by Virginia Sattler-Reimer Design and the yarn was Locket’s (hand dyed) merino dk yarn ‘Berries, Books And Baubles’ And I’ve made a s