2010-01-12 It’s done, woo-hoo! I worked in the ends tonight at Knit Night.

2010-01-09 All over but the shouting. I need to work in the ends. It came out HUGE! but that’s OK, I can double it over my ears and then some.

2010-01-06 Um, I counted wrong. That’s 25 out of 27.5 squares done. 25/27.5 ✕ 2/2 = 50/55 ÷ 5/5 = 10/11 of the hat is finished. My math was wrong, too!… urg.

2010-01-05 Twenty out of 22.5 squares done. That’s 10/11 8/9 of the hat!

2009-12-30 I did 5 more squares yesterday. Fully-caffeinated, it takes me about 20-25 minutes per square. I haven’t decided whether to do 4 rings of 5 squares plus a ring of half-squares, for a total of 22.5 squares, or to add another ring for a total of 27.5 squares. I’m leaning toward the latter, since the first hat’s a little small and I would like to be able to completely cover my ears with a double thickness.

With the bigger size, it would take roughly 12 hours to knit the hat.

2009-12-29 Up to 10 squares now. I’m doing something different for picking up the stitches: I’m doing “life-lines” on the selvedges (carrying up a lighter-weight yarn loop to catch the turning threads).