Helical Hat Finished

Finished hat

I just realized I never posted about my Helical Hat!  Oops!  I've been distracted lately and more forgetful than normal.  I'm not sure what is going on as I'm not normally very forgetful - maybe it's just "summer" brain.  Speaking of the never ending summer - this is my first Texas summer and it sure has been hot.  I knew it was going to be hot, but it's just weird that it is still this hot and football is on TV.  I'm use to football starting and the temps being in the 70s not in the 100s! At the end of the week the high is only suppose to be in the low 90s; I'm definitely looking forward to that.  Okay, on to the knitting.

Inside of hat

The helical hat is a fun, quick project.  I believe I already talked about the tubular cast on in a previous post, but let me just mention again that it is a really nice cast on for 1x1 ribbing.  I'm talking nice as in it looks very professional.  Probably the most difficult part of knitting this hat was the crown decreases.  I call this difficult because I did mine keeping with the helical knitting instead of switching over to just one color and having a solid colored crown.  I had no problems keeping the different colors separated while on the circular needle, however that wasn't the case once I switch to DPNs.  The DPNs made everything go crazy for me.  The yarns were all tangled not only around each other, but around the needles as well.  It made me crazy!!  I kept untangling and untangling and untangling and you get the point - a lot of untangling. 

View of top of hat while flat

I was also delusional about how big this hat was turning out.  I was thinking that this would be a great hat to give to my nephew since I haven't knit him anything yet.  Well, while my nephew does have a big head, he doesn't have a man sized head.  This hat is definitely fit for an adult and preferably an adult male or someone with more hair than me. 

View of brim and inside of hat while flat