The Hat Kick

I’ve been on a hat kick lately. Don’t know why, but sometimes it happens.

I just have to knit hats.

It’s a compulsion.

An obsession.

I’m on my 4th one so far in the past 3 weeks.

I got two recreated and adapted French Voyager hats, and one Navy watch cap done, and I’m on my 3rd French Voyager hat.

I say recreated and adapted. I found a pattern some years ago, but when I made it, it was far too small to fit on anything except maybe a cat’s head.

After much trial and error, I finally hit upon the magic combination of needle size, yarn size, and row counts, it fit on my Rob’s head. It doesn’t pop off his head, it’s nice and snug, and he was very happy with it!

Plus he looks good in it!

Can you say compulsion?

Can you say obsession?

Two of the three I finished went to live with friends last week. The other finished one, and the one currently on the needles will be up for sale shortly.

They are hand processed, hand spun 3-ply, and hand knit from my sheep’s fiber. These are from Leo, so they are moorit in color.

It took about 7 hours to spin the yarn and I can usually knit a hat start to finish in about 10 hours.

It’s a zen thing for me.

I can binge a tv series, currently its The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, spin or knit, and tune out the entire world.

Quite frankly, it helps me keep my sanity. Too many stressors in my head lately. Even a brief break is a good thing now.

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