The reveal continues.

I knit a hat for my brother. The crown of the hat (fawn) is millspun sock yarn from Drake and others. It’s not very soft, but my brother can wear wool and he’s still got a full head of hair, so I figure the crown of the hat really isn’t skin contact. the darker brown is from Georgia – handspun – and it’s nice and soft. This is the part that will contact the forehead and ears, so I made it a softer yarn.

It ought to be a nice, warm, hat and not too scratchy because of the softer yarn where skin contact is likely. My brother is visiting my parents in Wisconsin and the moment, and they’re having some real winter weather. My nephew is very excited about the sledding opportunity, which means my brother is spending a lot of time outside. From the reports I hear, the hat is much appreciated.

This is the first hat I ever knit. I worked top down starting with a round of single-crochet. Picked that up onto four – and eventually six – dpns. I increased every other row for a while, until the hat threatened to turn into a tablecloth. It just kept growing and growing even after I stopped increasing. It’s so very different from the top-down hats I’ve crocheted, because in top-down crochet, the hat tips over from a flat circle to a cylinder in about three rounds. The needles – at least in my hands – held this thing flat forever.

I switched back to k1p1 ribbing when I switched to the handspun yarn. The hat was still growing at this point. If you look closely, you can see that there are actually decreases in the darker yarn.

Even with all the adventures, I think it turned out to be a pretty good hat.

Enjoy it, Brother!