352: Brooke’s Bonnet

I was going to say that I wish I could remember how long it took me to make this bonnet.

Handspun yarn, Hand knitted, hand-wound ties

But I don’t.
It was a really cool project, using the pattern from Card, Knit, Wear: Unspun Caps by Carol Huebscher Rhoades in the Winter 2008 issue of Spin-Off Magazine. (I happened to have spun and plied my alpaca, instead of making an unspun cap. That was a good move, because I ended up reknitting most of it several times, trying to get the pattern right.

It's an intricate and beautiful pattern. A little fussy, frankly.

But the lovely Brooke seems to like it.

Wondering why everything from Auntie Jen smells just a bit like patchouli.

(Probably because Auntie Jen is a hippie).