Hat Count: 8.5

I’m still making hat progress.  I’ve got two new hats finished today.  My bear idea isn’t fully where I want it yet but I’ve got a good proto-type…

I think he needs to be a little bigger and if I’m going to pass him off as a Grizzly, he should probably be brown!  Good thing Stitches is at the end of the week!

I finished the next, in what is bound to be a limitless parade, nephew hat.  Adults will definitely be reduced to goofy faces and baby talk when little Markosaurus wears this one.

There’s also two hats currently on the needles.  With a bit of luck, I might get them finished tonight!  

The blue garter stitch number is killing me.  Garter stitch??  Who purls when then knit hats??  Not me.  So I had to start the one of the right…I need a break after an entire row of nothing but purls?!?!  It’s just terrible.

After that I only need 4 more.  I was messing around with brioche yesterday.  Liked my colors well enough.  Couldn’t come up with a cast on that I liked though.

This is just a swatch with a standard long tail cast on.  I also tried a 2-color Italian cast on.  It was fiddly and by the time I got it right, I decided I didn’t like the way it looked and it offered no structure.   So, before I get a gold medal for a brioche hat, I need a gold medal worthy cast on, Anybody have a suggestion?

I, also, thought about pom-poms a lot this weekend.  I need to watch to youtube videos on how to make fancy pom-poms.  Anybody have suggestions here too?

See the guy at the bottom of the frame with a red & white pom-pom hat.  It caught my eye because I thought, maybe, it was a Canada hat with a maple leaf pom-pom!  How cool would that be? I don’t think that’s the case here but I wish it was.

The pom-pom on the right side here:

I think that one’s a camel.  I never got a better look at it.

And then, there’s the luge crowd.  White hats with white pom-poms.  Really?

Kudos to the one brave Romanian who opted for the hat with flag colors!  Hats off to you, sir!

Now, back to the knitting…I think I might be able to get my baker’s dozen in by Friday if I keep at it!

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