This hat is a bit small for me, but it isn’t for me, so that’s fine. I just put it on to photograph it. As it turned out, it was a very easy project. The yarn isvery “splitty” so that was kind of a pain, but overall it was easy and fun.  I made it with a facing under the cable though.  I was showing a friend of mine, and we got to talking about it, so we both thought it might give it a more finished look on the inside to just switch to a few rows of reverse stockinette, then fold everything to the inside, and finish the crown.  Worked great.  See, here’s the inside.  You don’t see the inside of the cable, and it gives an extra layer right there around that part of the head.  I made the size small, and I have a pretty good size head, so it’s quite stretchy.   It took about 3/4 of a skein of Berrocco Comfort.  It’s a nice acrylic – but, you know – it’s acrylic.  I really much prefer wook for myself.  But to give to a busy mom for one of the kids, acrylic makes more sense.

The instructions said to Kitchener the band closed from the “inside” – but that gave me an ugly row of purl bumps on the outside of the cable band. Next time, I will follow my instincts and graft it together right-side out.  That seemed odd to me, but I went ahead and did as I was instructed, and wished this time I hadn’t.  Oh well.  The kids are easy to please and they won’t be inspecting the graft.

Project specs on Ravelry.

So, does it look like a hat yet?  It seemed like a good time to cast on for another hat! I bought this yarn for a hat, and there’s a little “knit-along” going on Ravelry using this pattern for the knit hat and another slouch hat pattern for the crochet part of the KAL. Although  I haven’t actually joined the KAL – apparently that’s what inspired me to get this one started.  Both patterns they chose for August are nice, and since I had already downloaded Coronet from Knitty.com it became the pattern of choice for this yarn’s project.

I have a problem getting the patterns to print properly from Knitty. Often the right margin is missing a few KEY words! Learned that the hard way trying to knit Clapotis. I was going from my printed copy, and things weren’t lining up, went back and checked and there was part of the pattern that wasn’t printed. Yeah, so that’s why Clapotis got frogged.  That yarn is being used for Marialis now, so there still is no Clapotis in my immediate future.  I solved the printing issue (when I saw it was also here with this pattern) by copy/pasting the pattern into a Word Document, and then printed it.  It’s all there now.

I haven’t done a cable pattern in a few decades, so this is a nice way to ease back into one.

I’m using a couple of Denise Needles as my cable needle.  It’s a 3 stitch cable – and boy is this yarn SPLITTY – so it’s not something I want to even attempt to do without a cable needle.  It works great too, and the flexible middle makes it dangle there behind (or in front of) your work all nice and secure as it waits while you work on the other stitches before it’s turn.

Sometimes I feel like a genius.