This week I am on a mission to overcome my disgust with top-down hat designs. In all my knitting career (in all of my hat excursions) I have only knitted one, one, ONE!! top-down beret. My turnoffs? The starting of the hat. I totally bah! off the juggling of four needles within the first few rounds and slide out the needles from the dozen stitches, neatly unravel and rewind the yarn, pat it on the head and place it to the side with an unguilty closure. That is just how it is.
It has been four years since the pattern Foilage has been published. That is four years of drooling, coveting, lusting….(*cough*)
“Enough!
To all this madness and just knit the bloody thing!” I so said to myself. Which in turn produced progress and eventually completion.
Ahha! Huzzuh! Top of the crown defeated…
the rest was a slice o’ pie!
The End.
Well, this attempt didn’t really change my mind about top-down hats. I still loath them but at least I gave it chance. I like this hat but I will be frogging it to make something else. I didn’t change to a smaller needle for the ribbed brim (which was a major mistake) and if I did this hat would be more of a success. My biggest icK about the hat (design) is the crown. I don’t know if I enjoy walking around with a huge ‘X’ on the top of my head. Another fail to this project is the type of yarn I chose. Self-triping handspun yarn is not good choice with this pattern. If I would have used a smooth solid wool I think it would have been nice. I think that I would have accepted the poor hat. O how discriminating I am to my knits. Poor poor knits.
Just to clear things up on my feelings of the actual Foilage hat and pattern. The pattern is brilliant and the hat is beautiful and I still love it. But our relationship together was not meant to be.
Nope. So frog it must and hopefully become a cabled slouchy beanie.
