WAS on my needles..., now DONE

Last night I started a spiral hat in a skein of Plymouth Encore that's a wild mix of colors: black aqua purple magenta/fuchsia. It's the same yarn as Hat 2. Hubby says, "It looks like a car's air filter." Ha. Ha. Funny guy.

This Spiral Hat: cast on 55 and join in round without twist. K3 P3 ... Haven't decided what the top will be yet. The spirals are much more pronounced this time than in the gray hat with the spiral rib cuff. Pictures when done. Promise.

See hat #9.

I used one whole skein of Plymouth Encore, size 6.5 mm needles, and the yarn was doubled. At round 46 or so I started decreasing. First I worked 4 stitches, keeping pattern, and then decreased stitches 5 &6 into one with a "work 2 tog" (whether it be K2tog or P2tog, depending on pattern). Did this for three rows or so. Then I worked P2tog all the way around for 3 or so more rounds until I was down to 7 remaining stitches and just a few inches of yarn. Drew the remaining yarn through the remaining stitches, and darned in the ends.

I took three or four pictures while trying to get the color to look realistic on my screen, but have pretty much abandoned hope of making cell phone pictures look good on my screen. (Sure, I could use a better camera but then it would be a LOT more work to put the pictures in this blog. The cell phone camera makes the blogging easy but the colors horrid. A real camera would make the colors better but the blogging harder. Six of one and half dozen of the other, I guess. Oh wait... 7 of one and 5 of the other. I'm going with "easy and horrid" rather than "hard and prettier".)