I finally finished my easy project, a hat, that I started on 1 January. I had commented in a January post that the ribbing seemed to be taking forever. Not helped by frogging a whole load and then again pulling out a couple of inches at the top of the hat. This project took so long because it was not my main project and there was a lot of knitting with fingering weight yarn plus the aforementioned ripping back.
Last September I purchased a skein of yarn with two minis. It would have made lovely socks but I wanted to make something different so decided on a hat. But not just any hat, a double layer hat to use as much of the yarn as possible and both the minis. I found a pattern – Double Layer SockyarnHat – which was published in 2002, way before this style became popular. My plan was to use all the mini skein for the ribbing but realized too late that this would have made the hat all rib, hence the first ripping. The second ripping was because I knitted more than I needed to before decreasing on the hat.
Yes I do love this hat; shame that it will be quite a few months before I will actually wear it.
