I got bored with the second cable-and-bobble hat, so I started Odessa. I’d tried on Jessica‘s hat and decided that it was too short for my tastes. So instead of knitting for 5.5″ before the decreases, I knit 6″.
Unfortunately, that meant that I didn’t have enough yarn for all of the decrease rows…
…as I’d only bought the one ball specified in the pattern.
Needless to say, I was a bit annoyed. Obviously, I didn’t want to rip back and start the decreases earlier, because if I’d wanted a hat that short I would’ve stuck to the pattern completely as written. And who wants to buy an additional ball of yarn for just six rows? Certainly not me.
But then I remembered that Jess and I had picked out the same color of yarn when we were at Knitting in La Jolla, so I asked if she had any left. And she saved the day!
Okay, so she just saved the hat. Whatever. Close enough, right?
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one of these days I must knit that hat.. it is so cute!