My friend Rhomylly is undergoing chemo right now. She's a knitter herself, and has asked her fellow knitter friends to make hats for her, so that when she loses her hair (it's already getting brittle after her second dose), she can cover up with cute stuff. I volunteered to make one. I recently frogged a baby sweater I was working on: the baby is now too big for the size for which I bought the yarn, and I can't see myself getting back to the rather obnoxious pattern. The yarn is perfect for a chemo cap: a soft microfiber (Berocco Comfort DK). I selected grapey purple and screaming lime green to make a hat with a slip stitch color pattern, Marram. It's a lovely subtle pattern when you use subtle colors that are only slightly different from one another, but it's kind of funky and psychadelic when you use such bright and contrast-y yarns. Hopefully, it'll be nice and comfy and will cheer her up when she's feeling crappy.
The hat is simple to knit (so far), and it's a nice break from my shawls. I have to confess, I've been neglecting them. I don't want to rip out back to the last lifeline and then pick up all the stitches again on the Vernal Equinox (I did indeed skip a chart, damn it), and I apparently screwed something up on my Seascape that needs fixing, and gods, do I ever HATE undoing and fixing stuff in Kidsilk Haze! GAH! I love, love, love the way it knits up, but I think that in future, I will only do very, very simple lace in that kind of yarn. You know, the kind of stuff that has maybe a 12-stitch repeat that becomes rhythmic over time. I should make a point of fixing that up this week, though. One of the shawls, anyway.
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