This one started with a work Christmas party involving a gift exchange. Gifts were supposed to be thrift store finds, re-gifted gifts, or homemade. Of course I went for homemade--I'm cheap!
So I whipped up a hat and a sushi toilet paper cosy based on this pattern. I say "based", because I really used very little of the original pattern to make mine. I used a different cast-on, different increases (k1fb), and made a bigger breaking ridge along the upper edge.
Anyway, it was a HUGE success at the party, and somewhere throughout the course of the evening, it was decided that I would create a hat-version for a fellow board members daughter. I knew it couldn't be that difficult, because hats are pretty sushi-shaped as it is, and I already had all of the yarn I would need. Within an afternoon, I had the maki-beanie:
The main body of the hat is done with Caron Simply Soft. It's uber-cheap, machine washable, and it's my go-to hat yarn for people I don't know very well (it's 100% so it's not itchy on people with sensitive skin). I decided on ingredients from sushichart.com. Mine isn't a "real" maki roll; I chose ingredients with fun colors. The akami, mentaiko, kanpyō, and cucumber are all just old scrap yarns from other projects--mostly Red Heart sport weight. Of course, the possibilities with these are limitless--which is part of what makes it so fun.
I'm working up the pattern for it. I tend to just scribble things as I go, so it may take a while to "translate" into proper knitter-speak. I'll be adding a link later this week!
