I *finally* finished this hat!! This has basically been my one and only WIP for the last few months but between wrist pain and daily life I haven’t had much actual time or urge to knit even though I REALLY wanted to wear this hat. I’m sad that I don’t have more time to wear it now that its finished because we’re sort of on the verge of spring here in GA… though I am sick to death of the cold.
As soon as Woolly Wormhead released this pattern I knew it was what I wanted to use this gorgeous skein of Malabrigo (colorway: purple mystery) which I got for my birthday from a friend who knows of my love of all things purple & Malabrigo. I cast on in November and the project sort of got worked a few rows here and there as I had the urge. I have to admit that life here at Mouse House has been chaotic and unbalanced since we moved last summer that I haven’t really had too much of an urge to knit.
I love this pattern and the charts (boy, I never thought I would say that…) that go with it… making the pattern and construction very obvious. As with a lot of WW’s other hat patterns, the Marina hat is also knit sideways and grafted at the end with a kitchner stitch. I probably overdid it in the push to get this finished last night and was a little brain dead when I got to the kitchner instructions because I mangled it pretty badly. This is NOT to say that WW’s instructions sucked.. because they didn’t (the in-pattern tutorial had both writing and photos) – I did one of those famous moves where you do what you THINK it says.. not what it really says to do. Once I stopped doing MY interpretation of the directions it went rather smoothly and I don’t think anyone will noticed the half-assed graft job because of the drop stitches.
Pattern: Marina Hat by Woolly Wormhead
Yarn: Malabrigo Worsted (purple mystery) -less than 1 skein (Ravelry says 164 yds & 74/100g)
Needles: size 7 bamboo straight needles
Mods: none unless you count my ‘creative’ kitchnering.