First Knitted and Fulled Balmoral Bonnet

[John Henderson]

I have an eight-year-old son, Luke, whom I am trying to kit up in Highland gear. With his growing head, I hated to start spending the money on the fixed-size, commercial balmorals. I searched here and came across usonian's post: http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...almoral-74554/. I was inspired, and began to teach myself to knit just to make this. With actual ties, it would allow a little growth, and when I have to make another, I have perhaps $10 of materials in it.

I finally finished it today.





It is the pattern by Anne Carroll Gilmour, in the small version. I overfulled it, so it is smaller than I liked. I may make another for him, but am proud of the workmanship on this one.

I won't bore you with more photos or details, but my Ravelry project link is: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/iain...almoral-bonnet. I have many comments in my log there, and many pictures showing the steps along the way.

I got bogged down in the sewing of the trim (you can read about it on the Ravelry page), and in the meantime, knitted and fulled my own balmoral, this one in green with a gold double lover's knot. Hopefully, I'll be more motivated to finish the trim, and will get pictures posted in a week or so.