Knitting: tentacle hat

[jamjar]

So, a little while back, girl_starfish declared that she was, in face, Queen of the Tentacles. This came as a surprise to her friends, although perhaps not as much as it should have been.

I made this in response.







The pattern is basically this ridged hat from Head Huggers, a charity knit organisation, slightly adapted. The tentacles are made with the ruffle/potato chip technique (knitting into the front and back of each stich on every even row, knitting all the odds). The coloured wool was koolade-dyed.

The ear flaps were added later, because girl_starfish was worried about it staying on. As far as I can remember, I just CO twenty stitches in the white, went on for a bit, started decreasing and switched the coloured, then just single-crocheted the end of that with my fingers for the cord and sewed them on. The whole thing was pretty quick to make.

Comments

[koramay.livejournal.com]

That is wonderful.

*bows to the Queen of the Tentacles*

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

Shh. She may expect that if you ever see her wearing it.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Hee! That's marvellous.

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

It's just nice to be able to say that I made a tentacle hat for my friend. And then I think that she'll be wearing a tentacle hat in Japan. And in a Japanese school, no less. I don't know if her new school has sailor-fuku type uniforms, but if it does...

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Tentacles!

I wish I had an icon of Tentacled Delight. It woud be apprpriate.

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

...That icon would scare me.

[errantimpulses.livejournal.com]

oooh, that's awesome!

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

Thank you! but really, if one of your friends makes a declaration concerning royalty and tentacles, what else can you do?

[kickthebeat.livejournal.com]

That is absolutely adorable. I am going to ask my roommate's mother to teach me to knit, so I can learn how to make fun things like and BATMAN scarves. ;;)

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

Knitting is just surprisingly easy. girl_starfish only taught me how to in January, so this and the Batman Beyond scarf really don't need a lot of skill.

[kickthebeat.livejournal.com]

I was looking at your pattern for the Batman Beyond scarf and hmming and hawwing to myself, and my roommate looked over and said, knit two, perl one? :D Domestic goddess, in my own home! She is going to teach me whenever I buy the stuff to learn.

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

dude - that's just *neat*

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

There's something very satisfying about making someone a tentacle hat. I probably shouldn't examine that too closely.