So I Knit a Hat

This hat.

Using absolutely gorgeous, soft, now discontinued, stupidly expensive yarn. I knit it, stuck it on my head, and Mr. Man promptly burst out into uncontrollable laughter. Someone on Ravelry mentioned that they had knit this particular hat in pink, and it made them look like Strawberry Shortcake - maybe I should have stored that little pearl of wisdom away somewhere.

Like in my brain.

My yarn is not pink, but rather a lovely blend of brown, purple, and dark pink (it makes sense in person, I swear) so instead of Strawberry Shortcake, I look like - in the words of one friend who witnessed the idiocy that was this headgear - a demented white girl rastafarian. Oddly enough, the look I was aiming for wasn't Strawberry Shortcake's little friend, Organic Hemp Brownie, so I unraveled it.

No, there are no pictures.

What amazes me is the power of the human brain to overlook the obvious. The pattern is for a giant, cabled beret, made of giant yarn. Odds are, it's going to be big. The comments of others who have made it all discuss how oversized it is, and how it makes them look like an extra from Strawberry Shortcake on Ice. The picture on the cover of the magazine itself, is that of a really, really big ass hat. I have a small head. I look overwhelmingly bad in a big hat, I always have. I know this fact to be true. I know this, I looked at the pictures, I saw a giant hat.

And I knit it anyway.