Starving Artist Hat: Part 2

In a change from my usual methods, I have managed to finish a hat in just 3 days!

In action!

Above, you can see me wearing the hat. It's really difficult to get a good picture of something on your own head, let me tell you! So I held it out and took a picture, which shows more of the twisted rib and the pom-pom that I made.

Only way to easily get a picture of the back of it.

The hat looked good before, but I love how it looks now that the pom-pom is there.  Instead of cutting cardboard or using one of those fancy/expensive pom-pom makers, I opted to just wrap the string around a used gift card. 

Warning!  When evening out this bulky wool yarn pom-pom, the little fibers separated from each other and got everywhere.  I tried wiping the bits off, but there's still a bunch of fibers holding out.  Kind of like glitter, I suspect I will be finding little pieces of this yarn for a LONG time. 

At least it's purple!

Starving Artist Hat

I've been making a LOT of bracelets lately.  I mean, look at that!  That's about a third of what I've made in the past two weeks or so.

Lots of bracelets!

As you can imagine, so much repetitive knotting can lead to sore wrists.  So yesterday, I decided to move to a different repetitive-motion craft for a short break! 

Starving Artist hat... bulky yarn goes so fast!

Boy, I forgot how quick bulky yarn knits up!  This Starving Artist Hat (the pattern is free on Ravelry) is super cool so far.  It's funny how you can see exactly where the increases for the body of the hat were.  And that twisted rib!  Oh, how I adore a nice twisted rib.

I'm off to watch more documentaries (the number I've seen in the past week is a little scary) and add some length to the hat.

Here's my page on Ravelry.