It’s beautiful!
Some recent completed projects:
This brings my total hat count so far for 2025 to 35 for Charity and 2 for family. I think I have 2 more in the laundry bin waiting to be washed and 1 on my needles in progress. Doubt I’ll make my 50 that I shoot for, but a good try.
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The pink one has a lot of interesting stitches. I also like the tweedy ones on the bottom. They look like good hats for the men’s shelter. They always need warm clothing and hats!
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The pink and white multi stitch one is this pattern:
Has errors in the pattern, but can be sorted out. ETA: sorry, I was confused. This was the one I had to make changes to it because I converted it to knitting in the round. No errors that I recall.
Unfortunately, the green tweedy ones are going to be too small for the average man’s head. I should have increased the cast on to accommodate for the yarn being lighter weight than what was called for. 
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I wonder why that site has so many hats that require sewing together? Like you, I convert them to knitting in the round.
Thanks! I have yarn to make that hat!
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Especially in the intermediate category. I can understand for beginners, but more advanced knitters make their hats in the round.
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I love how you are making interesting combos. I think it helps to be able to use up those odd bits and pieces of random skeins!
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I usually hang on to my partial skeins until the end of the year. Then I pull them out and see if I can group some up for a scrappy hat. Some combos work out better than others, but I like an “eclectic” look myself. I feel like you can work an outfit around nearly any crazy color combo.
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I just finished the hat from h*ll!!
I had some brown and beige yarns left over from another project and just hated the thought of putting them in a bin, maybe never to see the light of day again. I decided to just hop to it and make a hat.
A hat normally takes me a day to make. This hat took two days of knitting, ripping out, knitting, ripping out. I messed up and knit one section inside out. I missed a few stitches and got thrown off pattern in another section. After redoing and redoing, I finally finished…the hat is too big for my head! I swear I checked it three times! UGH!
So, into the giveaway pile. I am not undoing it all.
Moving on to another hat…I loved one of the new stitches I tried, so I am going to stick with it!
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Cute hat, even if it was a trial to make!
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I am not done with it yet…I mean, seriously, it is huge. I should just let it go, but I can’t. It will bother me to no end…going to transform it as soon as I finish a better hat to regain my confidence that I am not a sucky hat maker!
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Your hats are fantastic. You are definitely not a sucky hat maker. If that is too big, donating it is a great idea. Some people need bigger hats and those can be hard to find.
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What was the new stitch you tried that you liked?
Try weaving in some elastic cord to reduce the circumference.
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The circumference is almost 30 inches…there is no saving this hat…it keeps stretching as well and might even be bigger now..No worries…I like repurposing!
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Add a lining and a drawstring and boom you’ve got yourself a bag. Lol.
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Yep! My thoughts exactly! 
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I ended up frogging the whole darn thing and turning the ugly brown/green yarn into ugly potholders!
I did make something I liked much better using the stitch I liked. It is Noro yarn that I have been hoarding for some time. I wore it out already and it is way better suited in both fit and my style!
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I love the checked hat! Can you tell us the pattern?
You are burning through stash!
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