The Endless Hat Saga

Feel like I've been doing nothing but knitting hats lately. There have been the usual baby hats as there have been lots of babies born recently and more on the way. But it was the Instant Glamour beret from Wendy Bernard's Custom Knits that was nearly the death of me. I've been trying to knit a little something for the women at work when it's their birthday. A couple of scarves... but how about a jaunty little beret to shake things up?! I had some yarn that I'd been given that I thought might be nice as the beret, and I paired it with a plain green yarn and another fancy green speckled and slightly fuzzy yarn. As you can see... the hat just never was big enough and I didn't have enough yarn to go back and add stitches so my daughter ended up with a beenie that you see on her head. I tried a thicker yarn for the next attempt... the purple and red combo. I tried to add rows to make the beret slightly slouchier, but once again, it didn't really work. My older daughter quickly snatched that one up. Finally, I tried again and really went to town on adding rows, but as you can see, I ran out of yarn and had to switch to an off-white. Played with the pattern a little, and liked the hat. Seemed like it might be just right. The big day came and I gave the gift and the hat just didn't look good on J. What do you say? That hat really looks horrible? Anyway, I was saved by the woman whose birthday was the next week... I'd been knitting a scarf for her, but the hat actually looked good on her so they agreed to switch. Saved!

Still working on a hat for my husband. Frogged the top about a month again and haven't gotten back to it. Need to finish as it looks like winter just isn't ready to leave London. Temps plunged again today.