3 Hats

I've apparently been in a hat making mood this week. I have finished 3 hats. The first is a pattern from the new Knitworthy 2. I was very excited about it. The yarn is 100% Cashmere. We recently got a new coffee table thing and took the old beat up IKEA one to a thrift store. I wandered in to look at the used yarn (sweaters). This was from a beat up cashmere sweater with a few holes in it. I unravelled it, washed the yarn, tripled it to get to worsted weight and the result is the gray hat below. 

I am overall disappointed with the pattern. Both the modeled pictures in the pattern show the hat as slouchy. I don't like slouchy hats, but I have a longer head so often enough slouchy turns out to be long enough. This hat however was neither. It barely made it to my ears. It was so soft though. 

I ended up finding someone who loved it a lot more than I did and traded it and some other yarn I got sick of before I got around to knitting it for a loom she was trying to get rid of. So new incoming hobby!

The second hat I finished in a day. The pattern is from the book Metropolitan Knits. I plan to make a sweater from it soon (with yarn from another reclaimed sweater). I didn't really like this pattern either. The top decreases looked really cool in the picture, but the pattern was written terribly, especially for one from a published book. The neat effect on the top is from it being super gathered, the wasn't clear from the books picture. Also the pattern as written had a button with no button hole, which is just silly. I fixed that bit. The yarn is some yarn someone else got sick of at some point, I don't remember who or when. I liked the yarn, I have enough for another hat, which I will do in a better pattern. The button is from my button box. I like the button despite it being orange. I didn't want to use it for this hat, but it matched the yarn so well and oddly had holes big enough to use the bulky yarn to sew it on. It probably isn't enough to make me want to keep the hat. 

The last hat took a lot longer, but happened to be finished in the same week. It was a pattern I had been wanting for awhile from craftsy. It was only available in a kit. I searched all over the internet for a digital version and failed to find one. (Of course it is now...) But a few months ago Craftsy had a sale on my favorite yarn and I added the pattern in since shipping was no longer an issue. I like this hat. It was a quick knit despite being on tiny yarn. I might adapt the pattern to be a little smaller if I made it again, but overall it turned out well. Not sure if I am keeping this one. Maybe it will go to someone with a large head like me.