Ok I did my part. I knit a whole hat (a whole large hat, for my very large head, with a nice deep folded up brim) in a mere two days. Two snowy, cold, blustery days. Two snowy days which happened after a whole snowy week. Two snowy days which seem to have happened before a whole 'nother snowy week. We're at the 'around a foot of snow on the deck railing' stage of things. Which means going outside for photos is simply not happening. Which means we must continue to wait for the pattern (though I do plan to [...]

Still snowy. Still not going outside. Still quite content to work on this instead. I stand by my life choices. Though if one of you could make it melt enough for me to get pictures sometime in the next week or so that would be lovely. For I have heard a rumor that some of you wish to have your own version of these. And I'm happy to facilitate that...but I'm going to need to not get frostbite in the process.

So the first hat is done (as in knit, blocked, pattern written and tested), but outside is encrusted in an alarmingly thick layer of the worst glitter, and I am not going outside in that for pictures (pictures in the snow are both harder to take and never that cute when I take them). So of course it seems reasonable to cast on another version of this hat. This time with a folded brim. Which, though I dearly love wearing, is always a bit of a gut punch to knit because you go from 'look this is like six inches [...]