I spent ages picking out the yarn for Elijah’s crown. Finally I settled on two chunky Rowan yarns that I found on clearance, “biggy print” in giddy and “big wool fusion” number 07. I planned on using a single strand of the bulky yarn instead of a double strand of worsted. Only as it turns out the pattern only calls for a single strand. Yeah my memory sucks. I had this vague notion that I had worked it with a double strand last time, but it didn’t occur to me until much later that it was because I had used a double strand of DK weight yarn to get the proper gauge on the brim. Oops….
So I had already taken out the yarn and sat down to begin knitting when I discovered all of this…and the yarn was all in Elijah favorite colors…and my needles were right there…and I was thinking about how he needed a new winter hat anyway…so I just picked it up and randomly started knitting. The result is this totally unplanned, very colorful, texture rich, very warm, very, very funky little hat….

Let’s just call it artistic, shall we? Yeah, that’s it, it’s artistic…