Ta da! The hat for the baby who didn't get a blanket is all done. It's super cute, and I hope the new parents like it.
A few notes on the pattern. The pattern I used was Cabled Hat with Earflap from Adorable Knits for Tiny Tots by Zoe Mellor. I have another book of Mellor's, 50 Baby Booties to Knit, and I have the same criticism for both books. Basically, the pattern are a lot more fiddly than they need to be. This hat is knitted flat and then seamed up. Some knitters prefer to knit flat, but it's just another unnecessary step that could have been avoided. I modified it to knit in the round by casting on one stitch less, but that's my preference because if I had to seam it, there's a good chance it'd sit there until the baby was two years old waiting for me to get around to it! The earflaps are gorgeous and the ties and pompom in a coordinating yarn are a great touch that I will use again, but there were heaps of ends to weave in, making the finishing a bit annoying. The instructions on how to make a pompom were incredibly blacking. The sizes of the hat, rather than being listed in approximate ages as you'd expect from a baby book, were Small Medium Large, meaning that while I was making the hat I had no idea if it was going to be the right size for a newborn or a two-year-old. I love the finished product, but the whole process was, well fiddly and a bit annoying.
Yarn: Less than one ball of Sirdar Double Crepe for the body of the hat, scraps of Bendigo Woollen Mills Classic 5ply in Royal Blue for the straps and the pompom.
Notes/Modifications: See above.
And before I go, have you ever seen anything cuter than this?
I thought not.
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