Was it a promising start? Yes. Did I find something I wish I’d done differently (namely the decreases…I want the solid line to carry from the inside and curve along the expand-y gold bit, not go straight up the outside of each panel)? Alas, yes. Did I consider just dropping back and fixing it, even though fixing stuff in brioche is a bit of a bear? Yup. Did I even, in fact, actually drop back and fix a couple of spots to  make sure I truly preferred one way over the other? Yup. That’s when this that first picture, needle-less and mismatched, happened.

Did I, at this point, realize that it was going to fit ever so much better if I added in a couple more stitches, heave the most gigantic of sighs, consider chucking the whole thing in the bin forever, and rip the whole thing out? Uuuuuh huh. Can you, if you’re into that sort of thing, watch me do that over here? Sure.

Did I then get it back on the needles, with more stitches, and back underway in near record time? It would appear so. Am I happier with the result? Oh yes, quite a lot happier. Is this a PSA on how ripping really isn’t that bad and you should just go ahead and do it? I mean I suppose. But god I still resent it every single time. Damn good looking hat though…