I had added this hat to my Ravelry queue back in late November or early December in an attempt to make a bunch of hats for Christmas gifts. Lo and behold, Life kicked into gear and got in the way of accomplishing my goal; however, I still really wanted to make this hat because you have to admit it's pretty unique.
The yarn is Moda Dea Vision, which may turn into one of my favorite yarns to work with due to the color patterning. I have another skein in pink, and I know exactly what I'm going to do with it, so that left me to use this purple-y skein I had sitting around. Both skeins were purchased years ago to go with a free purse pattern I picked up in an aisle of ACMoore. We all know how that goes, so both have been sitting in my closet ever since. It was time I used them up!
Though the hat came out niceley, I made one or two mistakes because the pattern was a little difficult for me to read. The first part is fine, where the pattern is written out for 5.5" (you do the same repeat during that amount of time). But then the instructions turn into just that - instructions. The last quarter of the hat is reading a paragraph with some knitting language embedded within it, which really threw me for a loop. I figured it out, and it wasn't difficult, but I really had to pay attention. If you know me, you know that's not something I like to do when I'm making something for fun, so it was a bit frustrating. It looked so neat, though, that I had to finish :)
Of course, I still haven't learned that I need to make my main hat section larger than 5.5". It's a bit short, but still adorable.
Overall, I consider this one a success. And since posting it on Flickr, it was already requested to be added to a group - how cool?!
View this project's details on Ravelry.
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