My hat is jinxed

Have you ever felt that a project, no matter how great you think it will turn out, is jinxed? My rolled brim cloche is one of those projects. I know I made one in the past year, but after cleaning my sewing and knitting spaces (really cleaning not just a pretend cleaning), I could not find it. So I started another one out of the taupe yarn leftover from the first cloche. But in a massive lapse in judgment I left it sitting out one night and the cats got to it and pretty much destroyed it. The indoor cats almost became outdoor cats the morning I discovered that they had thrown a shredding party with my hat.

So, I started on hat number 3. Number 3. New yarn, new needles, new project bag to store it in. Hat #3 took a little longer than the other ones. I think the pattern may have worn me down a little. But I finally prevailed over the hat, the yarn, and the cats. I haven't had much luck taking a picture of myself wearing it, and my sons definitely will not wear it for a picture. So for the time being, we are offering a picture of the finished hat sitting on my ironing board. 

Taaa-daaaa!

 

Along the way, I took some photos of the hat. The hat starts off knit back and forth, then it is seamed before the "brim" portion is knit in the round.

The back seam being stitched together.

Front view after the back seam had been stitched.

Top view of the unfinished hat.

So, the lesson learned on this project. Always put things away when you are done working or playing with them. Geez, that sounds an awful lot like what I tell the boys 30 times a day.

So I thought I had a hat....

A while back, on our Facebook page, I was going to post a picture of a hat I had made from one our patterns. But I couldn't find that hat and I couldn't find the pics we had taken of it. If Alison hadn't been the one to take the pictures of the hat (and seen the hat), I would have thought I had completely lost my mind. 

I had yarn left after making the  original hat, so I thought I would start another hat.  I am using the "Classic Cloche with Rolled Brim" hat. You can find the pattern here: Classic Cloche with Rolled Brim

The original pattern called for Bernat Colorstyle Yarn which is no longer available, and I couldn't find any information online about it. Instead, I found a yarn that gave me the same gauge: Vanna's Glamour Yarn was easily available and makes up into a really cool hat.

I will be posting updates as I go along. Hopefully this will be a quick knit. I wish I was faster at knitting.