Remember when I said there would be a hat in my future? The future, it has come, and the hat is finished!

I spent a while knitting up the sides, finally reaching the next interesting part - the brim...

[caption id="attachment_2231" align="alignnone" width="640"]Knitting the double-layered brim... Knitting the double-layered brim...


which is folded over and then cast off to make the double layer, using a three-needle bind-off.

[caption id="attachment_2230" align="alignnone" width="640"]Closeup of the brim in progress. The really interesting part is not yet started, though! Closeup of the brim in progress. The really interesting part is not yet started, though!


Binding off, for me, is always a little weird. I'm sort of feeling three things at the same time - happiness that the item is finally finished (or almost finished, with the end very much in sight), a little bit of sadness that it's over and I don't get to knit longer or more with the lovely yarn, and annoyance because binding off always takes a good long while (or at least it feels that way to me).Then the hat was finished... and looking very blobby.

[caption id="attachment_2229" align="alignnone" width="640"]It's finally finished! Though still looking very unspectacularly and blob-like. It's finally finished! Though still looking very unspectacularly and blob-like.


So it went off to take a little bath, and afterwards it became great friends with a dinner plate, and the two got very close and hung out together.

[caption id="attachment_2228" align="alignnone" width="640"]blocking_hat Cute couple, the hat and the plate, right? (The plate is standing on a glass jar, by the way.)


[caption id="attachment_2227" align="alignnone" width="640"]The hat on the plate, seen from the top. I really love these spiral patterns! The hat on the plate, seen from the top. I really love these spiral patterns!


And now it's dry... so yay, new hat! And it is still cold enough outside to wear it!