yet another hat

I finished another hat last week. I had a migraine so I was too busy (i.e. in too much pain too take a pic and post about it) it's black with cables. it's from the website I previously posted about from the Stitch Cafe.

I love this hat. Okay. The pattern say to use chunky yarn and size 10.5 needles. I've used my size 8 16" circulars before with this pattern and it turned out fine because of the ribbing giving it a little stretch. I guess since I haven't done hats in a while they're super tight. I was a little disappointed that this hat was "snug" to say the least. I could wear it though and it wasn't too bad.

(I would make 1 pattern suggestion though. It says to start decreasing when the hat is 5.5" long. It's a rapid decrease with a decrease EVERY row. This will make the hat, when wearing, stop in the middle of your ears, as the picture on the website shows. I always like to have my hate come down pretty low. If you do too, give it another inch and don't decrease until 6.5")

Anyway. As I said, I was a little disappointed about the fit, but I know it'll stretch out over time. I had also discovered with these patterns that this one (and maybe the other) that they fit children fine as well. So I was playing around on Friday night and slipped the hat on Jubi's head when she wasn't paying attention to what I was doing because she was too engrossed in the TV.

She looked so darn cute, but she also looked like she meant business.

This look says "I let you play with the Giant Legos for 5 minutes yesterday, but I don't know if we can have the same agreement today. I think I'm going to be needing some kind of collateral. We might have to negotiate next to the slide after lunch."

She realized about 10 minutes later, when her head started to sweat, that something wasn't quite right and then she took the hat off and threw it at me. It was hilarious while it lasted though.



I'm currently trying this hat AGAIN. This time I'm trying it on my size 9 dpn.

It's a little more difficult, but my stitches are actually a little more relaxed and I'm going to give it the extra 1" length. I hope this one turns out better. (I'll let you know.)