As requested by the great Tracey Erin Smith, Artistic Director of Soulo Theatre, who, along with Savoy Howe, is bringing an entire bus of women down to the March on Washington on Jan 21, 2017 I have designed a beaver edition of the Pussy Hat. It will be a fine companion to the Canadian flag version. By the way, that hat is finished. I sewed up the Canadian ends at Tim Horton’s (what could be more Canadian than that)…
Then I sewed up the sides while my son was doing a fitness session at the gym.
Of course I got right to knitting the ribbing for the Beaver Pussy Hat, my 6th hat. Here is the design for the middle section, done on Stitchpainter software.
The original pussy hat pattern is available on the Pussyhat Project website. Here’s a how-to video. To make my Beaver Edition, do a knit 2, pearl 2 ribbing for 4.25 inches, then work this Beaver pattern and finish off with pearl 2, knit 2, ribbing for another 4.25 inches.
Tracey and Savoy will be sending us photos of them in their hats at the March on Washington – and hopefully photos of lots more pussy hats in the crowd. Meanwhile, I’ll see my Toronto friends at this fair city’s edition of the March on Jan 21. The meeting point is at Queen’s Park at 12 noon.