Another Brattleboro

UPDATE!

10/21/11: After sitting down with this project for a few hours, and really paying attention to the pattern repeats, and decreases....It's DONE!!

This hat gave me a lot of problems, but it was mostly me not paying attention. I would knit this again. Now that I've made this pattern a few times, I'm unhappy with the first one I made.

I'm chalking that one up to "first-time knitting-a-pattern mistakes."

I'd like to knit another one of these, (for me) with a Malabrigo yarn. I really like the Bijou Blue color.

But it will have to wait. I have way too many projects sitting in my queue, namely Christmas gifts!

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10/20/2011:

Knitting of this is hat is

going

very

slowly.

Aaaargh!

Knitting the band was easy. I finished this in approximately 3 hours, and it only took me that long because I was distracted by the TV.

Then I put it aside to block, and ended up making a baby hat and mitt set in the meanwhile.

After those were mailed off, I picked the band back up and proceeded to pick up the stitches along the edge. Of course, I got cocky with this one and attempted to pick up the stitches without properly marking off small areas. So I ended up making a total mess, and ripped it out, and picked up the stitches a second time.

I decided to magic loop this hat, and when I went to start knitting, I realized I had only bought a "36 inch circular instead of "48 ish which would have of course, been much easier. The first few rows of the moss pattern were extremely difficult. Now that I've knit a few rounds, it's getting easier.

Hopefully the rest of the hat will go smoothly, and I will achieve the result I am aiming for!