Fair Isle First

I can't actually remember when I started knitting. Unfortunately I was not one of those knitters who was taught young by a mother or grandmother (that would have been nice, knitting would really have helped me in high school). I know I started knitting around Christmas time and I think my son was turning one, because I really can't imagine myself learning to knit with a one month old baby. So that would put it around November 2004, just over five years ago. And in all that time, cables, intarsia, short row socks, felting, pattern publishing...

I never once knit fair isle.

I know, never once! Now I do live on the border of Florida and Georgia so it's not like I have snow to contend with and therefore desperately need warm and beautiful sweaters for months out of the year. I should be knitting nothing but cotton tanks and stuffed animals but I love to pretend I have a winter to plan for. I even started selling all my gloves on Etsy because I can never use them but I so wanted to knit them.

Still never managed to knit fair isle....until todayI know it's nothing spectacular but I am very very proud of myself. It's the Fair Isle Hat from IK Holiday Gifts 2006. I started it yesterday as a knit for my son and really loved the process. Which is probably why I finished all of the main hat part in one day, big accomplishment for me.
It's a great project for resolution time too since the pattern is from my library stash and the yarn was in my stash though it is a gift for my son, not uber personal knitting but close enough.

I'm already dreaming of knitting another fair isle pattern. Just gotta make room in my wip basket.