Citrus Hat debut

Last Thursday when I was sent home from work I was sad.  So to cheer myself up I decided to get out my knitting (and a bottle of wine and my favorite TV shows).  I had FINALLY set the twist in my citrus batt yarn and had been itching to knit it with not enough free time.  So on came Project Runway I had missed from the night before and I cast on.  I continued through the bottle of wine and on-to the season premiers of Ugly Betty and Grey’s Anatomy and I finished the hat.  And, I was unhappy with the hat.  I wore it a little friday to try to make myself like it, but to no avail.  Sad.  I used Halley’s Comet Hat by Marnie MacLean.  It started at the top of the hat which was cool and I liked.  But unfortunately it was too long and with the color variegation of the yarn I would want to take out more of the orange from the top.  Bummer.  Besides that I was not a big fan of the decrease used in the middle of each panel.  So I told myself I would have to re-knit it, and that is what I did Sunday night – Monday morning.  To ease in knitting I started from the bottom up.  I changed around the pattern on the second one, so it is similar to the Halley’s comet, but definitely don’t expect to get what I got from following the pattern.  I just can not knit anything as written.  ANYWAY, the finished hat was debuted at the pumpkin patch with my mom’s kindergartners yesterday.  I AM IN LOVE!   It is wonderful!  Here are photos!

Citrus hat at the pumpkin patch

Closeup of the citrus hat