Yippee!

This is my first all-finished, ready to use knitted project I made for ME!

I did a tiny bit of work on Thursday night before bed, continued Friday night before bed, and finished it this morning.

It is a super soft blend of 50% wool, 20% silk and 30% angora (Noro Kochoran colorway 31 dye lot D2, handpainted and made in Japan).

Using just guidelines for number of stitches and the decreasing, I otherwise made up this stitch pattern myself. I am happiest when improvising and doing my own thing instead of just following a pattern made up by someone else.

I really like the hat even though it is a bit bigger than I had hoped and fits on the loose side.

I love the colors and it is so soft and warm!

The base pattern for this hat (which I improvised) was in a book called "Spin to Knit" by Shannon Okey.

If you crave more details of this project of mine read about it on my other blog, here.