Apparently I am easily inspired by seeing little skeins of solid colour wool, in a million colours. They just look so pretty, and scream to be matched up in awesome ways.
This hat can be blamed on that. The bright green (the best!), obnoxious hot pink that needed to become little tiny hearts, add in some TARDIS blue, because of course, and then some white to balance it all out, and you get this crazy project.
I did mull around the idea of stranding the project, but as you can see from the chart, that would have been completely silly. So I learned how to do duplicate stitch properly. Surprisingly easy!
Not-Really-A-Pattern pattern!
Cast on 107, do 2x2 ribbing for a bit less than 2”. Increase to 112. Do 10 row stripes, alternating white and green. After 2nd green stripe, start my favourite ‘multiple-of-four’ decreases, from Turn A Sqaure, keeping 10 row stripes going. End with a couple extra rows of green at top.
Do that in like, 2 days. Wear super cute stripy hat and congratulate self.
Realise you planned to do 28 hearts, and 28 TARDISes total, meaning fifty freaking six little things. 27 sts per heart, and 19 per TARDIS, meaning a grand total of 1,288 stitches you have to duplicate over. Not counting the several dozen you will have to take out due to the derp.
Make this face - D:
Start on the first stripe, and do a heart. OMG SO CUTE! Add TARDIS, omg even cuter!. Continue around.
Don’t reach a decision on if you want to fill in the other three stripes yet, because you decided to add project to Ravelry before finishing first stripe.
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TA-DA!
Finished hat weights 42 (!!!) grams with all the little ends still in there from the duplicate stitching.
I forgot to weigh the hat before adding hearts and TARDISes. Oops!