#pride hat

Knitting patterns for sale!

I'm a queer, disabled crafter who can't get a "real" job. My knitting is the only money I get. I just had to close my comms to get some work done, so the main thing I'm selling right now is my original knitting patterns, for $7 each! Every purchase helps a desperate person survive.

Textured beanie

Disability pride hat

Aromantic flag coloured hat i found at a garage sale.

I've knitted this fantastic (if I may say so myself!) rainbow pride hat for my friend @wuselwesen. They are making me something else in exchange for it - we're doing a neat private crafty swap!! :D

[id]Picture 1: a knitted swatch of what was supposed to be 10cm of knit, but turned out too small and thus I had to adjust the whole pattern! Picture 2: Too many rows of green knitted, before I realised I've started the rim of the hat wrong...[/id]

I was good enough to do a swatch this time (as you always should, but aren't we all guilty of skipping swatches??) but completely misunderstood how to start the rim of the hat.. You're supposed to knit it on the round, not sew together at the end (which I thought first). Lots of frogging!!

[id]Picture 3: All the rainbow yarn (and some additional sock yarn for Christmas) in my recently thrifted artsy bag.

Picture 4: The green rim of the hat has been knitted (correctly on the round this time!) and the rainbow begins, with purple, blue, green and now a row of yellow![/id]

I had to make sure the hat would be big enough, as I was modifying the pattern (my yarn was not as thick as the yarn the pattern used), so I tried it on for size halfway through.

[id]Picture 5: A tilted selfie close-up of a rainbow hat being tried on, with the wooden needles sticking out funnily above the young white woman's face. The rim of the hat is the rainbow part, while the body of the hat is being knitted in black yarn.

Picture 6: It's time for the rounds of reductions at the black top of the hat! I didn't have enough stitch markers, so I made some out of dark orange/reddish yarn (just some knotted loops). All the various stitch markers look very busy, but also cheerful.

Picture 7: The (almost) finished black rainbow hat! The black body of the hat forms a kind of bulb shape (like from a flower) and the rim is knitted in rainbow colours. The green part of the rim has been foldd to the inside, it's meant for reinforcement.[/id]

Happy New Year!

I added up last year's sales and donated $325.50 to the Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Network (plus a bit extra to cover processing fees). This year's charity will be Voices for Vaccines.

Some new hats have been added to the shop as well! Been knitting up a storm lately on the knitting machine. :D

Some of the options on my Etsy!

Featuring:

Transgender

Quoiromantic

Polysexual

Queer

Polyamorous

Neutrois

Gray-Asexual

Genderqueer

Genderfluid

Gay (Philadelphia flag version)

Fraysexual

Diamoric

Demigirl

Demigender / Deminonbinary

Demiboy

Bisexual

Bigender

Cupiosexual