Sunday, November 18, 2007

hooray for finishing things!

Yesterday I finished the Elephant Tam for my sister (although my friend Chelsea made noises implying that she might be keeping it for herself). I even blocked it!
I have this bad habit of not blocking things. I can't really explain why it is. It's like, I know that stuff looks super nice when you block it. It always makes knitted stuff look better. And yet, somehow, I rarely do it anyway.
But the tam definitely needed the blocking, so block it I did. The best part about it was that it called for being blocked on a dinner plate. I had a little trouble understanding what that meant, but it was AWESOME - you pull the hat around the plate, and the plate gives it the right shape! How cool is that?
So anyway, without further ado,
the top of the hat:


side panel closeup:


and here it is again, looking super cute on Chelsea:

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