Knitting on Holiday Time

With extra time off around the Thanksgiving holiday and some serious laziness around the house, I wrapped up some knitting, including a complete project redo.

Once upon a time, in a place called Schaumburg, two of us visited a yarn gathering known as Stitches Midwest, but one little Sariebeth had to stay home. We missed her, though, so I endeavored to make her a pink cabled hat while we were away to give her when we returned. After all, Sariebeth loves all things pink! So I followed the hat pattern and even finished with some yarn to spare, but discovered that although it was marked as an adult pattern, it barely fit my head. It could be squashed on, but barely reached the top of my ears. I hoped that maybe I just had an unusually large head since I didn't have time to re-knit the hat before seeing Sariebeth. Unfortunately, my head wasn't so unusually large and the hat barely fit on her head either. So it became one of those gifts where "it's the thought that counts", but it bothered me that I made such a useless gift.

So, when the weather started to turn cold and I was still thinking about the sadly undersized hat, I asked Sariebeth's husband to bring me the hat so that I could fix it. He knew where to find it and returned it to me, and I set to work frogging it back to a couple of balls of yarn. I started over from scratch and added another repeat of stitches to the cast on (and fixed some of the mistakes I accidentally added in the first attempt when converting the pattern from flat to knit in the round). Then, to make it lengthy enough to cover the ears, I added a full pattern repeat before decreasing at the top. This time I had just a tiny ball of yarn left instead of half a skein and it fit my head like a proper hat should!

And so I re-gifted the pink cabled hat to Sariebeth this weekend and all is again right in the knitting world. The End.

Oh, and I finished my first pair of anklets this past week, too. While still in progress they even traveled to the Thanksgiving dinner festivities for both sides of the family, but I spent more time cooking than knitting.
Yep, I'm still knitting.