Phoncible Hat – Love!

I really should have renamed this hat, I have no idea what a phoncible is and there’s just no getting cute with that name in a blog title.

Anyway, it’s finished and I LOVE IT!  It worked out just as great as I thought it would with the two different color changes and I don’t mind the rolled up edge after all.  It does work out to be sort of a feature rather than an annoyance.

I didn’t end up blocking the hat because I wore it the whole time I was on holiday.

Oh yes, holiday… it was wonderful.  I was so glad that I saved this project to work on while sitting in front of the fire.  It was just knitting without having to fuss around with paying too much attention to a pattern. If anything it went by far too quickly.

I was a little worried as I was knitting it that the orange and pink wasn’t going to come back around again before the hat was finished but I didn’t realize just how long it was going to be.  I was glad to have gotten through all of the colors again before the end as having the colors from the band in the top really ties it together.

I ended up having to improvise with the top a bit.  I didn’t think about how I was going to actually finish off the hat after the decreases started so all I had with me was my circular needles.  To finish it properly I needed double pointed needles, so I improvised by connecting two of my cables and going as far as I could with magic loop.  Once I was down to 6 stitches it just wouldn’t work anymore so I put the thread through and closed it up.  It’s probably not as tidy as it would have looked had I had my DPN’s with me but there was no way I was going to put this down and not finish it.

As far as the size goes, it worked out fine.  From the description of the weight of the yarn (on Ravelry it’s said to be sport weight but I’m really not sure about that!) I expected that it was going to work up too small, but if anything I could have even gone down a needle size (I used 4.5mm as suggested in the pattern).  It fits me but if it were any bigger it’d be too big in the band.  I think I have a small head as most hats I make feel slightly big on me but they fit my husband nice and snug.  I need to go with my gut in the future and aim for slightly smaller.

This is really comfortable though, and toasty!  Once it was finished I wore it on all of our walks while we were away and it kept me nice and warm.  I think because of the band feeling nice and thick due to the yarn being carried across the inside.

For those who would like to try this hat, here’s the info!

You can find my project here on Ravelry.

Pattern
Ravelry: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/phoncible
Non-Ravelry link: http://www.dull-roar.com/2008/01/phoncible-pattern-available.html

Yarn
Grey mix – Scheepjes Noorse Sokkenwol (Color 951)
Rainbow Mix – Scheepjes Noorse Sokkenwol (Color 968)

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