December Lights Tam

December Lights Tam
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The week before Thanksgiving I took a free class at Sophie's for knitting the tam from the Interweave Knits holiday issue. The yarn I cose to use was Baby Twist from Alpacas with a Twist. This yarn is so soft, you just can't even imagine! I forget between times knitting with it, but every time I do, I think I would like to knit everything out of it. It also doesn't hurt that there a ton of colors to suit just about every project.
I have been wanting to try fair isle for a while now but for some reason have been really hesitant to do so. Well it turned out to be not bad at all. I even was able to knit with the two colors in two hands. I think if I did enough of this I could talk myself into being nothing but a continental knitter. .. But I am not there yet! I changed the colors in the hat and am not totally thrilled with how well it shows the pattern but overall I am really happy with how it turned out. My one major complaint is the weaving in of the ends. Man oh man are there a ton. I can only imagine if you were doing a cardigan in fairisle. I think weaving in the ends would take as long as knitting the sweater! I still need to block it so that this will get it's tam shape, so I will update with that soon.