Sweet Home Alabama

i'm not really a hat  person.  first of all, i have a supremely large cranium, making finding hats that fit somewhat difficult.  second of all, i'm not always so sure about the whole etiquette of hats.   i know plenty of men and women who keep their bosox caps on all day, indoors and out, but it just seems weird to me.   as for knit hats to keep warm, i have one.  i look like an idiot wearing it.  but it's certainly warm.

however, there's nothing like a bad haircut  to bring new light to the fashion possibilities of a hat.    with some stash mercerized cotton, i whipped up a 'head's-up hat' from the Spring 2005 edition of IK.   my gauge was way off but that was a good thing since my head measures 23.5 inches around, the pattern makes a 19.5 inch hat (pinheads ).

hat not on head

   
hat on head

i kind of like this litte hat and i'll probably make another.  the colorwork part was actually quite fun to make (a scarf may be in my future using a slipstitch pattern) but the crown was a bitch.  do not try to use aluminum dpns with mercerized cotton.  you'll be sure to poke an eye out as the needles go shooting out of your hands. 

rocky was so alarmed that he asked to go outside

i'm off to birmingham later on today.   3 glorious days spent in a windowless conference room in a hotel off of the interstate.  good times .  (actually the hotel is pretty nice, so that's cool).