Odd knitting

[celticdragonfly]

This is just disturbing. Chicken Viking Baby Hat

I am SO not making one of these.

Comments

[marymont.livejournal.com]

If you could expand it to adult size, I know someone who needs a winter hat who would SO wear it.

Wheedle?

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

I have standards. I am not knitting a naked chicken viking hat. Nobody would take me seriously as a fiber artist ever again.

That said, feel free to go for it yourself! They give the finished size and the gauge, so should be easy to take it up. You'd need the head circumference measurement - on adults, likely to be between 20 and 25". From there you can figure by gauge or by proportion. For baby 18" they use a cast on of 80 stitches, so proportionally take that up, as long as it's divisible by 4. Call that number X. Cast on X, probably should do more than 5 rows of seed stitch, take that up proportionally too. 80 is to X as 5 is to Y. Do Y rows of seed stitch. Etc. The width of the ear flaps should be proportioned up, too - make them 1/8th of your cast on, must be an even number. The chicken legs would be the toughest part.

[eleanor.livejournal.com]

Need. It. Badly.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

But whyyyyyy?

[eleanor.livejournal.com]

I looooove goofy hats!

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Okay, I can deal with that.

Go for it. You knit? If not, I am utterly sure there's good yarn stores in Manhattan that teach.

I'll keep in mind that you like goofy hats as I wander the web. Have you seen the little kitty ears hat?
http://www.kittyville.com/knit/kitty_hat.html
Fancier ones here:
http://www.platypusdreams.com/knit_wear/patterns.html

[eleanor.livejournal.com]

I do not knit, and honestly, I don't see it happening at this juncture. And I have not one but two hats with extra ears, and another hat with a doggie on top. The doggie has two eyes on one side, like a flounder, and the hat ties under the chin with two big dog bones!

[macgyvergal.livejournal.com]

Glad you do have some standards, 'cause that is WRONG on so many levels...

[chaosdancer.livejournal.com]

Um...hurl?

Now, a pepperoni pizza hat, I can get behind. Perhaps even a ham hat. But a plucked chicken hat? That's just too weird. It's not even made of rubber!

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

I wants it my precioussss! This would so go with my Court Jester hat collection! And my Rubber Chicken collection! And you know I am a complete doofus in the fiber-manipulation department, inkle loom is the height of my semi-competence. ppppplease?