Hat completed!

i just finished my first hat! i learned a LOT with this project: knit in the round, decrease, AND how to switch to double point needles. i was really freaking out about having to switch from the circular needles to the double point needles once the stitches starting getting tight on the circular needles..but i found this post on the blog woolly lambmoths and it was realllly helpful. you should have seen josh’s face when he looked up from across the desk and saw me mid-way through switching the stitches over to the dpns with the circular needles hanging from my almost finished hat. the process looked kind of like this:

..only with a hat stuck in the middle of all of it. anyone else remember that game, pick up sticks? man i loved that game.

i also learned how to make a sweet pom pom!

i used some of each color of the yarn to make the pom pom and while i usually don’t like hats with pom poms, i think this one looks pretty cute. 

before i started the hat i measured my head in order to make the right size. the number i came up with was halfway between the measurement for the men’s hat and the women’s hat, but the pattern said to go with the smaller measurement if that’s the case. so i went with the women’s sized hat. the finished hat is too big for my head…well it fits but i’d like it to be a little snugger, especially since when you wear hats like this after a while it most likely will stretch. so i let josh try it on since he has the mother of all heads..and it was even a bit big on him! next time i’ll make it smaller, but i’m glad i learned this using cheap yarn and not the expensive stuff i wanted to buy to make it. 

all in all i’m excited because now that i know how to knit in the round i can move on to bigger and better things..like leg warmers!! gloves! or more hats i suppose.