I finished the Candy Corn hat. I like how it came out, although if I make it again I will do a few things differently.
I have a glass pumpkin that I fill with candy corn at Halloween time. I used it to hold the hat while I was doing the decreases close to the top and it made the whole thing a lot easier to work with.
I’m getting better about taking pictures so that I can have the time/date stamp on the original picture, but I can also crop it out for blog and Ravelry posts.
I went through more trouble with this hat that I normally do with a simple hat. I didn’t change colors when I should have. The yellow should be a few rows less and the white a few rows more. It didn’t bother me badly enough to rip it out and redo it, but I made notes on the project page so that if I make another one (and I’m sure I will) I can do the color changes differently.
I skipped a decrease and didn’t notice until several rows later when I realized I was getting a different number of stitches between one of the markers. It bugged me enough to try to fix it even though it probably wouldn’t have been noticeable on the hat. I dropped a few stitches back, made the decrease, and “knit” it back up with a crochet hook. Because it was a decrease that meant that the two columns of stitches were now one column of stitches and there was more yarn to work with. The ladders that resulted were wide enough that I thought they may not block out. Still, it was nice to know that I could have fixed it without ripping it all back if I wanted to. I felt really clever. Had not the yarn been acrylic I might have just let the ladders stay and see what happened during washing and blocking.
On to the mitts.
