I finished the hat very early in the morning on the 26th I wore it that day for my morning walk with the dog.
Saturday was spent working on another project, one of many, one of what feels like an interminable and endless backlog, but I am determined to get through it, either finishing or frogging the entire mountain.
Sunday was reward day, and I knit a second hat, using the same pattern. This time I used another Manos del Uruguay yarn, Franca, which is a soft, squishy, single ply. The color is called blush. This required a little more attention to knit as it is easy to split single ply yarns, but the hat is also lovely, There is more than enough yarn remaining to make a pom pom should I choose to do so, but I have a gray fur pom pom in the studio somewhere and think I will see if that works first, or I will leave the top of the hat plain.
Both hats were knit on size 13 needles, and gauges were similar. Both hats fit perfectly well, but you can see the differences in the yarn. The purple hat, knit in Rasta, is firmer and does not stretch quite as much as the pink hat. which is soft and stretchy and cuddly. Both are perfectly comfortable to wear although I might say that the purple hat is ever so slightly warmer. Both will see their share of wear.
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