My supervisor gave me a bunch of acrylic (in this case, wool acrylic blend) she found while cleaning her garage, which is nice because I was almost out of the donated acrylic ive been making hats with to give away at work when people ask for them. And we ran thru those hats so fast.... like, less than a day. We have a lot of people come in who are told we have more resources than we do, and i really cant stomach sending anyone away empty handed. So...
Anyway, I crocheted a hat (easiest way to make a math-less 1 tool hat imo) which fucked up my wrists because I still have tendinitis. So today I knit this hat. It was ok...ish. Not great. When i got to the crown tho it was really awful. I tried magic loop and then I also tried 2 circs and both really hurt my hands. I do not have suitable dpns and would prefer not to use them for this anyway because I know ill lose them pretty quick at work.
I know i COULD just decrease to the point that it becomes too small for my 16 inch circs and then just cinch it tight. I am against doing that because its not comfortable to wear a hat like that, especially if the yarn is bulky which this is, and also because its a waste of yarn and i have zero intention of buying any yarn for this. Donated yarn only. And no way to know if/when i will recieve more suitable yarn.
Tbh im kind of wondering if loom knitting might be good for this, altho I worry it would be too difficult and painful for me to hold the loom--its difficult and painful to hold an embroidery hoop, so. My other ideas are to knit the entire hat flat (this will take longer, which is a drawback), crochet the crown but knit the rest (might not work but also might work well ? Drawback is i know it'll look weird and crochet is not my friend right now) or, lastly, do some other thing i have yet to think of.
Idk. I might also ask one of my knit group members to do hats while I focus on gloves, which i can make a lot more easily, but so far they have not really been interested in actually doing that (originally this was supposed to be a group project, not a me project).
Of course I could also do nothing. And feel really bad and guilty and watch people get sicker and sicker from being unhoused in the winter with no hats or gloves. That is truly the last resort.
But I also dont want to tendinitis myself into oblivion, which for me is VERY easy. Many choices, all of them wrong...