I'm not entirely happy with this hat. You get a close up shot because I don't have a baby head to fill it with and it looks a little droopy without one. From Debbie Bliss' Number One pattern book, it had entirely too much finishing to do. Maybe all her patterns are like that. I've never knit anything by her before. In fact, it's my first hat. The only thing I don't like is the peaked edge, and of course, that's what attracted me to the pattern in the first place.
I had to pick up stitches from the original brim and do a bunch of increase rows, before then knitting the peaked edge and then sewing that onto the new, bigger brim. Is there a good reason why I did not simply start with the larger number of stitches around the brim and decrease as I went up? The double brim action seemed awfully redundant to me. Also (yeah, I'm really in a snit now), the pattern did not specify a number of peaks, just knit to fit and I think I crammed too many in, making the peaks overly floppy. I could un-sew the thing and unravel the last peak or so, but that maybe me being overly perfectionistic (what an awkward sentence). I'm knitting matching boots. If they turn out according to plan I'll leave the hat alone.
Dear Knitting,
You are my nemesis tonight.Love Cordially,
Kirsten
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