The hat was coming along nicely.

In fact, I was very nearly ready to cast off and finish it.

But two things kept bothering me.

One, I had screwed up the turning row between the brim and the body of the hat. You want to knit a row, so that the brim flips up just so. Well, I had purled that row, instead. Not a big deal, and (I dare say) not anything that anyone would ever notice, EVER.

Still.

Two, I had screwed up the decreases at the top. I thought how fetching it would be if the purl spaces between cables slowly disappeared, and the cables narrowed in towards each other.

But to do this, I simply decreased the purl stitches. Without a commensurate decreasing of the cables. With the result that the cables sort of fanned out and took over the top. Which is a look that I did not like at all.

So guess what.

Oh no you didn’t. Oh yes I did.

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A while back I received a request from someone I knit a gift for every year. She had seen my pictures of Liz Lemon’s ice skating outfit, and was smitten by Liz’s hat.

Unlike the thing-I’m-not-knitting, which is also gray Cascade 220 on #5 needles, this one only needs cabling once every six rows. It’s going so much more quickly! If only because now I feel I have something to prove to myself.

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