My giveaway for the baby hat pattern, Owl and The Pussy Cat Hat, is still going on. E-mail traci@creative-pursuits.biz to enter! I'll choose a winner on Friday.
Today will be a short post to show you my grown-up looking hat to go with my grown-up looking coat. Unfortunately, I'm frogging the grown-up looking scarf because of rolling. I'll talk about that more when the scarf is done.
Since I'm not good with figuring out sizing and all that for hats, I wanted a pattern for a very simple, straightforward, no nonsense hat. I found just what I wanted on Ravelry (no surprise there - they have everything). It's called Basic Knitted Hat. It's perfect. It has ribbing for a brim, then stockinette stitch for the main part of the hat and basic decreasing. It's perfect, and it was free. Yay!
It gives instructions on how long to make it for a regular hat and for a slouchy hat. I don't think I'm cut out for slouchy hats, so when I was about halfway through the suggested number of rows, I tried it on:
It was at the perfect spot to start the decreases! You can see that I used DPNs. It was just a bit too small for circular needles. I'm getting a lot of use out of the DPN set Mom gave me for Christmas!
The rest of the hat went very quickly, and here it is:
I used Vanna's Choice Charcoal Print. The striping is nice, but look what happened at the top of the hat:
I love the spiral! The scarf had some nice zigzag patterns going, and I hope those come back when I remake it.
I'll model the hat when the scarf is done.
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