It is finally done!

When I first started knitting I found this hat pattern on Raverly. It was tiny cables interwoven all over the hat. It was beautiful, but it wasn't free. At the time I thought it was silly to pay for a pattern when there were so many free ones available. I bookmarked it, and then slowly forgot about it.

I got over the buying pattern thing a few years later. I found this cable bag pattern that was perfect. I was considering modifying and combining all these other cable bag patterns. When I realized how much time I would be saving by just paying a few dollars for a pattern, I bought it. I'm still not sure why I would buy books, but not single patterns.

I knit a bunch of things and eventually stumbled on that first pattern. It was at stitches 3 years ago. There was a sample of it knit and it was beautiful. I was going to get the pattern and was told it was on Raverly. Turns out it was the same one I'd favorited years ago. I bought the pattern. Eventually I found yarn for it, and started knitting it.

That was a year and a half ago... I was on the first repeat of pattern of this hat at my family's reunion last July. It was tiny yarn on tiny needles and almost every other stitch was a cable. This thing was such a pain to knit. I never wanted to do it.

Last weekend I was at a convention and carried it around. When I had a few minutes and was bored I knit a little. Suddenly it went from feeling like the rows were never ending to being annoyed that I had to get out my phone to read the chart for the next one. I didn't finish the hat there, but I made actual visible progress. This was apparently inspiring enough to devote some actual time to finish it. It took hours upon hours. The second half of the decreases section took most of my free time Wednesday.

But it is done. I am never making this pattern again (well at least not with tiny yarn).