A hat fit for a yeti
The good news: I finished knitting a hat yesterday.
it doesn't look so big here...
The bad news: it isn’t actually a hat – it’s a gigantic head bag.
...but it's freaking huge
I don’t get it. I followed the pattern, a simple two-needle slouchy beret pattern, to the freaking letter. I didn’t miss any stitches (or add any) and my gauge was absolutely perfect. Whoever came up with this pattern must have had an abnormally large head. Like, really large. Elephantiasis-large. Either that, or their definition of the word “slouchy” differs considerably from my own.
I briefly considered other uses for this thing (bowling ball bag? giant hacky-sack?) before deciding to bite the bullet and try to fix it. This will involve ripping out about half the stitches and then trying to figure out exactly how much I need to decrease the stitch count. In principle it doesn’t sound too bad, but I’m sure I’ll suffer a headache or two before I come up with something actually wearable.
I’d consider just walking away forever if I didn’t like the colours so much. But I do, and I’m not ready to admit defeat. Admittedly the yarn isn’t anything special (just some cheap acrylic stuff), but it will make a fine hat. The colours remind me of those vintage knitted zip-up coats. (You know, the ones with the animal patterns on them, in a similar colour scheme? They look like they’re from the 1970′s, but I could be way off in that assumption. I’ve been trying to find a pattern for one, but so far I’ve turned up nothing. It might help if I knew the proper name of this style of jacket – if there even is one.) I always wanted one of those jackets. I’m willing to accept that I’ll likely never have one, if I could just have a hat that looks kind of like one.
Alas, of course it cannot be that easy.
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