Can not wait to get his yarn and start this project….should be delivered today!

Dec 03, 2013
So….I’m not sure what is going on with the ribbing. Hoping it will straighten out once I block the hat. But I am loving the yarn and the way the colors are turning out! So far this is a fun project.

December 08, 2013
Frogged the first attempt. Halfway through i found a knot in the yarn……and i thought the color would be fine, but as I went it became more and more obvious…..but i kept on going anyway, got all the way to the decreases and realized i skipped a row. UGH i just couldn’t live with both. Tried to unravel only to the spot where i skipped the row and it wasn’t successful. since i didn’t like the way the colors were matching up (from the knot in the middle of my skien) I scrapped the whole project.

attempt #2 started over……frogged again.!!!! ended up with matching colors….couldn’t see pattern at all. please tell me third time is a charm.

attempt #3 so far so good.

FIIINNNNAALLLLYYYYY Finished this crazy hat. Frogged the project three times Once because of me not paying close enough attention and once because there was a KNOT in the middle of my skein of yarn that messed the colors up….AND it was really obvious. and once becuse the colors matched up identically and i couldnt see pattern.

I think i TINKED as much as i knitted on this project.

overall the hat came out great and the pattern is great! Well worth the time it took to make. I did 7 repeats of the pattern because i wanted the hat to cover my ears. But once i started the decreases (after four rows…thats a decrease and a knit row so eight rows) I felt like the hat was getting too long and looked like it was going to end up being pointy……so i started doing the decreases every row instead of every other and that was a mistake. because the hat actually ended up being a tad too short. So I am going to make another one. (maybe next year…LOL!! I have to recover from this one.)