Chez Aristote

Hmm, that lovely hat I made in August? The winds the Mid-Atlantic has produced this season blow right through it. And planned jauntiness/wear at an angle over only one ear means the other ear is cold indeed.

So I resurrected a hat I cast on last winter, and had put by in frustration. I had long aspired to this beautiful pattern, before it was published and before I knew how to knit the two colors. The frustration came from the yarn I had decided would make do, Vermont Organic Company O-Wool 2-ply. It was relatively inexpensive, if hardy rather than soft, and I already owned it.

So I tried to get gauge a few times. It didn’t work out. I was also losing faith in numbers, graphs, counting, and the two colors after trying to knit this other thing in alpaca. Thus it went away.

Then this January, it became wintry here in earnest, and the one hat didn’t work, and I left another in Sister’s car, and I decided this O-Wool would be what gauge it wanted; and after three days of staying only indoors, my current best wearable hat was born. I realized after it was done that I’d ended up knitting it in colors that were more traditional than modern in the idiom of Norwegian, but it looks reasonably modern in the context of city gray. Plus, the slight largeness of the finished hat, combined with the double layer of yarn, means that my ears are covered, which is really for the best.

Ah yes, the jacket does not fit well buttoned, does it? Advanced case of baby.

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