There are some SPOILER photos here; so don’t continue if you want the hat to be a surprise. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I’ve taken part in the Woolly Wormhead Mystery KAL 2012. This is the first time I’ve done this and I really enjoyed it. I normally steam through projects and I was kind of nice to be able to do a project in small portions; made me appreciate the experience more! Also, I’m not 100% sure I would have picked the hat had I seen it first. It’s lovely but probably not something I would normally do. It’s good to try different things.
It took an awful lot of effort to finally choose some yarn; I kept finding that everything I wanted to do would just go into a 2nd ball to fit the size I wanted. I finally found a yarn that would work with just 1 ball which is Louisa Harding, Amitola which is quite an unusual yarn. It’s sold as a DK but it has 250m/50g which is an immense amount of yardage for a DK. It’s a single ply yarn with long stripes.
My favourite part of the hat is the brim. I love a brim with a double thickness and it just fits great (well it did until I overblocked it!); I lost a bit of the negative ease with blocking but it still wears well.
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