craftgrrl | #26 / Pink Cabled Knit Hat

Project #26 of 50 crafty projects in 2007.

I really enjoyed knitting Kirsten Dunst's Elizabethtown Pithy Hat, but purple just isn't the color for me. I might save this hat to gift around the holidays.

I'm in the process of stash-busting right now and for the first time, am really enjoying making hats. I wanted to make one for myself using my skein of Paton's Classic Merino Wool in "That's Pink", and stumbled upon this blue beret pattern. It's a modified pattern of the Pithy Hat.

Though, I also modified it by adding cables to every other repeat of "knit 8, purl 1". It's just a basic 8-stitch cable. My modifications are as follows: I followed the pattern as it is written, except using size 5 dpns instead of size 4. When I reached the k8p1 bit of the pattern, I substituted this:

Round 1-8: k8p1 *repeat for row
Round 9: k8p1, sl 4 sts onto cable needle (hold at front), k4, k4 from cable needle *repeat for row

Also, I only worked the hat to measure 7" total. When I knit the purple hat, I knit it longer and it just didn't feel right on my head. This one fits perfectly, and I loooooove it and the little pom-pom.