Bronco Colors Hat

This is the second time, I bought roving with a project in mind.  The purchase was two ounces of blue and two ounces of orange to make a hat in the Broncos colors.

I spent time debating whether I want to ply from a ball or do a barber pole and ply from both singles. Obviously, I went with a barber pole. 

Which shows there is some unevenness in the spinning. As often happens, one bobbin had more length than the other.  In this case, it was the orange.  The result was 108 yards of barber pole and 9 yards of orange.

And the hat was knit using a basic formula.  It took a couple of tries to get a good needle size and the right number of stitches.  The final decision was 74 stitches on size 10 needles which indicates the yarn was knitting to a light bulky or very heavy worsted.  The ribbing has the knit stitches twisted so that they look a bit tidier.  I used a knitted cast-on because I wasn't sure how much yarn, it was going to use up.  This lead to a slight unevenness on the edge when I wove in the end.

I do have a small ball of the barber pole remaining.  My guess is about 9 yards. In my world that means all the yarn has been used.

Hopefully, the recipient will like his Christmas present in a few weeks.  My guess is he will never read this blog.  If you know him, please don't tell.