Hola a todos🌼
Compliments of the season to all the needlework lovers in the house. As always, It's an amazing feeling to share my needlework with everyone.
A few months ago, the question "which season of the year is your favourite season?". I wanted to say the winter (harmattan) season but I pressed hard on my brakes and decided to wait for harmattan to come once again just so I was clear.
Now the season is upon us and I'm certain that this isn't exactly my favourite because of the dust and dryness that accompanies the season. Maybe it could pose as the second favourite.
Due to certain global changes, the season has been a bit different. Usually, the three characteristics that signify harmattan are dryness, dust and extreme cold. But now, the cold part of the season seems to be on a vacation. Not to over exaggerate but I've experienced only two cold days throughout this period; one was earlier this month and the second cold day happened to be yesterday.
This isn't so bad because yesterday actually inspired me to make something, a beanie. Beanies are worn on the head to help us keep warm and so I got to work.
Making this beanie came with mixed feelings. The very first crochet project I tried out was a beanie. Yes, a beanie and need I tell you that the beanie was a mess. I knew nothing about measurements, stitches and patterns or handling yarns with care, so the beanie came out very rough and was a bit tight for a regular beanie. Nonetheless, my siblings who were really happy for me decided to wear the beanie like nothing was wrong with it.
Here I am, twelve months later, trying it out again. I wonder why it took me so long? Maybe I was just working on perfecting my skills.
For this beanie, I started with forty six stitches since I was working lengthwise. After making the first round of stitches I went ahead and started making the rows in the back loops only. I must confess that I really like crocheting in back loops only because the outcome of the project always has this beautiful pattern to it.
I used half double crochet stitches for the greater portion of the beanie and for the last five stitches, I used single crochet stitches. Why? You may wonder. I did this to prevent the beanie from being too folded at the top.
Paying attention to the little details and ensuring that I entered into every loop to prevent my beanie from slanting, I kept stitching. Another major inspiration to make the beanie was a picture of a friend.
After the completion of the body of the beanie, I made a line of single crochet stitches round the end of the beanie. This was the end that was going to be left open.
Once I was done with this, I went ahead to join the both sides of the beanie and also close up the top of the beanie. All of these were done on the wrong side.
Afterwards I turned to the right side and the beanie looked really adorable. I also liked the colour very much although it isn't a dark colour. What do you think of it superstar 
With this, I was done with the beanie and in the spirit of Christmas I look forward to gifting it out to a person with a head that fits, hehe.
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Love, Wongi 🌼