FO Friday: Woodland Hat


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Well, welcome back to FO Friday! I'm thrilled to show off another finished object (I'm really working on trying to clear all my WIPs, so this is a success for me)!  
A cabled hat knit in worsted-weight yarn.  The hat is blue, and the turned up ribbed brim is an off-white.  The hat is drying over a bowl, and resting on a towel.

This week, I finished the Woodland Hat! I mentioned finishing it in my Patreon behind-the-scenes, but, now, I've grabbed a photo and can share with the world (or, at least with this amazing corner of the internet)  And yes, its a sister pattern to the Woodland Mittens, so when the hat is released, I'll bundle it with the Mittens!

Please do forgive my elaborate blocking system;  that is, mixing bowl and towel!  It works quite well to block most hats!

Yarn is *Squoosh Fiber Arts Ultra Worsted in "Rock Candy" and "Mallowmar", both of which were *Eat.Sleep.Knit exclusive colourways from their Candyland Yarnathon in 2017.

I did a bit of hunting to see if the colours were still available, and it seems not.  A quick Ravelry Search doesn't turn up either "Rock Candy" or "Mallowmar" as 'for sale or trade', though you might get lucky in a destash group somewhere (or, try asking really, really nicely in the Eat.Sleep.Knit Ravelry Forum)

Mostly, I'm thrilled to have a finished object.  Weirdly enough, though my first sample didn't have any trouble in the blocking, this one blocked out as I expected . . . except my ribbing went quite loose!   I think I'll have to add a note to go down a needle size or two for the ribbing (the first sample didn't have any problems with the ribbing, which was why this caught me off guard!)   It's not a problem for me, personally, as the the looser ribbing will fit nicely over my bun, but I'll have to figure it out for getting the hat to sit right for final photography.

This is slated as the 4th Quarter release for the Pattern Muses on Patreon, so if you're a Patron, stay tuned for your copy of the test-knit draft coming soon, with the public test-knit call coming shortly after that!  And, if you want a guaranteed spot in the test-knitting process, you can become a Pattern Muse on Patreon and be guaranteed a spot in this and future quarterly test-knits!

Well, I'm glad to have this off the needles.  Now, I've just to got to finalize the pattern draft, so, off to do some writing today!   What crafty FO have you folks finished today!

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