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ALL SET for demonstration, today 14.00 hrs at the Dam Square in Amsterdam. Will bring 6 farewell hats to give away. Some specks of color in the crowds. Join me in making lots and lots more! Find the HOW TO in my previous posts. Straks naar de Dam om te demonstreren, met 6 Farewell mutsen om uit te delen. Zelfs met een breimachine gaat het me niet hard genoeg... Help de stad blauw-geel maken! De beschrijvingen staan in mijn eerdere posts.

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HOW TO in BULKY YARN

Use a yarn for European size needles 6,5 or multiple thinner yarns. It knits fast, so you can throw another Pussy Hat together for a friend.

Cast on 66 stitches and start knitting a border (1 knit-1 purl) in 9 rows. After that, knit along in stocking stitch until your panel is 10 à 11 centimeters high. Switch to blue yarn and add another 10 cms in stocking stitch (or a bit more if your wearer has a relatively large head).

Cast off, stitch the sides together, forming the back seam and then close the top of the hat, placing the back seam in the middle of your now double layered panel.

Done!

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SHOWING MY COLORS FOR UKRAINE - Fast forward a few years and I’m knitting pussy hats again. Different colors, different dictator. As for a lot of people, it feels awful not to be able to help stop Putin’s crazy attack on innocent Ukrainians and democracy itself. I don’t want to be a silent onlooker. We’ve created waves of pink in the streets, now we can do the same with Ukraine’s national colors. Please join in!

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Jan, Annemarie en Simon at the Christmas Special Sunday Market, getting their crochet hats just in time to keep their pretty heads warm in fresh snow!

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I’m very happy to announce that knit-a-gogo will be at the next (extra) editions of the Sunday Market at Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam (along the Haarlemmerweg).

On the 3rd and 10th of December, open from noon till 6 pm. Free admission.

With the holiday season coming up expect to find lots of lovely presents for you loved ones.

Hope to see you there!

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EMMA PEEL MEETS MERMAID IN SPACE - shoulder sweeping warmness in a crochet hat...

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A HAT IS A HAT IS A HAT. Or is it? Check out some of my new snug crochet beanies and woolly hats, with or without earflaps, keeping you warm in wintertimes. I’ll soon update you on where to find them, to get your own...

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AND MORE... They’re off to Frascati Theatre in Amsterdam tomorrow, where 90 kids have taken over the stage.

FRASCATI ISSUES: ENFANTS TERRIBLES HOW DO 12-YEAR-OLDS SEE THE (NOT SO) GROWN UP WORLD?

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THERE ARE NO MORE EXCUSES GUYS. GET THAT PUSSY HAT LOOK. SHOW ‘EM!

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PRETTY IN PINK

Onke, my friend Annemarie’s sweet mum, is a knitting crack. Another Pussy Hat in the making!

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ANOTHER PUSSY HAT FINISHED.

This beauty is for my friend Gabrielle, a public health care GP, who tells me sexism still lives in her profession, typically amongst older, male colleagues. She feels she needs to make a statement against their graceless behavior.

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MY SISTER IN LAW LAURINA IS WEARING HER PUSSY HAT TO WORK TODAY. LOOKING GOOD!

NO NEED TO SAY EVERY DAY IS A GREAT DAY FOR A PUSSY HAT...

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HOW TO KNIT YOUR PUSSY HAT

There’s obviously two ways of knitting a square shaped hat, narrow and long with two side seams, or wide and low with a seam at the back and over the top. I did it the wide way. Don’t worry, the cat’s ears appear automatically when it’s seamed up, no shaping needed!

Use a bulky yarn, or multiple thinner yarns. Nice and warm and it knits fast, so you can throw another Pussy Hat together for a friend. If, like me, you use a yarn suitable for needles no.6 cast on 76 stitches (for the wide ‘n low panel!) and start knitting a border (2 knit-2 purl) for at least 10 rows. After that, knit along in any stitch you fancy until your panel is somewhere between 18 and 24 centimeters high, depending on how you want to wear your Pussy Hat (a rolled up border style needs 24 cm in total). Cast off, stitch the sides together, forming the back seam and then close the top of the hat, placing the back seam in the middle of your now double layered panel. Hey presto! Wear it with panache and get knitting on Hat no. 2!

(For the narrow and long way, a cast-on of 40 stitches is needed, beginning and ending with a 2knit-2purl border, knitting a panel twice as high as your preferred hat, somewhere between 36 and 48 cm.)

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At the Museumplein in Amsterdam today, I marched and protested for the first time in my life. Against sexism, against anyone who feels entitled to grab women at will and especially: Trump and what he stands for. I managed to finish my pink Pussy Hat in time and wasn’t the only one. I will be wearing it al lot, that’s for sure. Not only today. What a great way of showing what a c(bleep!)nt Trump is and that we’re not going to buy into his alpha male sham! Interested in knitting your own Pussy Hat? I’ll be posting a pattern next. It’s dead simple to make. You can also take a look here: www.pussyhatproject.com. Join in, color the streets pink!

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Our next COOL CROCHET SAFARI is on in October! Experience an extra week of summertime in the Magreb: we'll be out and about with our crochet hooks, climbing the High Atlas, criss-crossing the vibrant city of Marrakesh and plunging into the coolest pools... wanna join? Leave me a note: [email protected]

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A Sunday pottering job. Couldn't think of anything more relaxing to do than knit those petals and flowers. They're quick too, using two threads of yarn. The cozy is going to be a Christmas present for a valued colleague.

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BOW TIES GALORE!

knit-a-gogo is at the "All I want for Christmas" pop-up market, at the Zuiderkerk in Amsterdam this Thursday the 6th of Dec. from 17.30 pm onwards. With loads of lovely, colorful, stylish bow ties. One for every one! Take a look at www.facebook.com/events/247411652053789/ Lots of hand made gifts and food. My boyfriend Jules will be there to warm you with his delicious take on the good old English hot and brandy soaked Christmas pudding. Come and see us at The General Re:Store stall. Cheers!