{"id":6122,"date":"2014-11-25T21:18:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T03:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/?p=6122"},"modified":"2014-11-25T21:18:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T03:18:31","slug":"bulkyhatkal-with-blue-sky-alpacas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/25\/bulkyhatkal-with-blue-sky-alpacas\/","title":{"rendered":"#BulkyHatKAL with Blue Sky Alpacas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The good folks over at Blue Sky Alpacas are hosting a really lovely Bulky Hat knit-a-long<\/a>, right now, in their Ravelry Group. Through December 15, you can get a coupon for $5 off their Bulky Knit Hats for Kids & Adults<\/a> book by Sarah Smuland. For every completed hat you post, you are entered to win a cool prize that includes a knitting kit AND needles from Knitter’s Pride. Pretty sweet, hmm? <\/p>\n

I was sent enough yarn to knit the amazing “Trapper Hat” from the book. I LOVED the ear flaps and was intrigued by the fluffy bits under them and on the brim. I chose the colorway Atlantis<\/i> because my kids both love blue and it’s totally grown on me. I’ll take a blue of every yarn ever, thankyouverymuch.<\/p>\n

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It took me about 3 hours to knit this baby up. You start with the ear flaps and brim, then they get joined and you work the rest of it. It was a super simple pattern to follow and I was almost ready to call it a day right there. BUT THEN…I remembered the fluff. I really wanted to see how much cuter this hat could get.<\/p>\n

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The answer was “pretty damn cute.” It took me about as much time to attach 300+ pieces of fringe as it did to knit. I thought it would be a tedious process that would bore me to tears, but I was SO wrong! I found my groove while working and with each piece that was attached, I got more and more excited. <\/p>\n

I let out an actual squeal when it was done. I sewed up the front brim and plopped it on my head. SO DAMN CUTE. My son walked in a few seconds later, I suppose to see what the ruckus was, and I pretty much threw it on his head and squealed again. What could make this cute hat cuter? This dude’s cheeks.<\/p>\n

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I knit the largest size, so it is definitely too big for his head. It even fits me a bit over-sized, but I think it works well with this style of hat. I let him ride his scooter with it and giggled pretty much the entire time.<\/p>\n

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We hate our sidewalks.<\/i> Look at that face! Sigh.<\/p>\n

Check out the KAL<\/a> and maybe join us? These quick knits would be great Christmas presents!! This is the project that put me on an extreme bulky knits kick. Did I mention I’ve knit like five cowls in the past 2-3 weeks? I knit TWO more, today. It’s just SO nice to start a project and finish it the same day. Bulky yarn for the win!<\/p>\n

Disclaimer: I was sent yarn and needles to complete this project. All opinions in this post are most definitely my own.<\/i><\/p>\nPin It<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Blue<\/center><\/p>\n

The good folks over at Blue Sky Alpacas are hosting a really lovely Bulky Hat knit-a-long, right now, in their Ravelry Group. Through December 15, you can get a coupon for $5 off their Bulky Knit Hats for Kids & Adults book by Sarah Smuland. For every completed hat you post, you are entered to win a cool prize that includes a knitting kit AND [Read More…]<\/p>\nPin It<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,159],"tags":[27,212,227,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6122"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6129,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122\/revisions\/6129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}