…the intended recipient being (as the title suggests), Kim, who makes gorgeous cedar buttons by hand and promised to trade me a set in exchange for a hat. Done and done!

The final product is huge…HUGE. But Kim (whom I haven’t seen in over twelve years) said that her head is ginormous, so the fact that the brim falls over my eyes at the slightest twitch is okay, I guess. Were I to knit this hat again, using this same yarn, for someone with a more average-sized noggin? I’d go down to Size 7 and 10 needles.