I saw that pattern and loved it. Your hat looks great!!

I checked out hat patterns on Ravelry and knit your double knit ski hat for DH's nephew who is spending winter in Wyoming. He loved it, so thanks for the great pattern.

Whaddya know, I have a man to knit a man hat for (and some grey worsted-weight yarn in the stash).

Methinks this pattern will be PERFECT. (Then I can whip up some matching gloves and a scarf and I'll have a gift set to go with the lovely charcoal grey coat I bought him...)

Yeouch! Alison, I apologize. I really didn't mean my comment from a couple of days ago to sound snarky or to start a firestorm. Maybe I should have waited to post until I wasn't having a bad day. But really...I was only curious. I can see that making the small quilts are easy, fun, a way to try or practice techniques, a quick way to play with color. I get all that. I really was just curious, not being a quilter, about what you planned to do with them. (I mean, placemats seem like a great idea...)

I really am sorry if I offended you.

(Creeping back off to my hole now.)

No, no, Sarah, it was a good question and got me really thinking about big quilts and mini-quilts and knitted sweaters and socks and all the things that I make. It made sense to me to make smaller things since I do make things pretty quickly and know that I could be overrun pretty fast if I didn't watch out. But not everyone is as obsessive (oh heck, let's just say crazy!) as me. ;0) And while a voice of normalcy and reason in the midst of craft obsession might sound snarky or rude to some of the obsessed, I really didn't hear it or take it that way.

Ravelry has been great this holiday season. I've just cast on some Dashing mitts today because of it (oh, and because the Yarn Harlot did a pair too. I'm such a lemming).

Phew...I am relieved. I really enjoy your blog and would be mortified to think I had upset you.

I really liked your follow-up post, too.

And obsession? I understand obsession...you just need to look at the stacks of books around the house (and heaven knows there would be thousands of people saying, "Why do you buy so many books? Why do you keep them after you've read them?") or bags of yarn. Or boxes of beads. Or stacks of art supplies.

Please God don't let me get too interested in quilting!

It looks fabulous! I may have to try this one out, too. ;)

I have a Q.

If the measurements for a hat only go up to 23" and your head is 24" how do you make it bigger? They seem to go up by increments of 4 sts but I'm not sure how that goes.

I keep staring at the instructions in Ann Budd's book expecting the measurements to somehow change. Where's Harry Potter and his gang when you need them?

Fat headed family in Canuckville

I just reread my comment.

To clarify I meant how do I make the hat bigger not my head!

LOL

Anita, if you read this -- your addendum made me laugh!
Remember that hats usually should measure a couple inches less than the head size to fit well; or they slide around and fall off.
That being said, look at the gauge. If you really do need another inch in circumference, and you can't easily just add a few stitches (like the pattern above), then try a size bigger needle until your gauge is what you need for it to work out. (i.e. -- 115 stitches at 5 stitches per inch = 23 inches; 115 stitches at 4 3/4 stitches per inch -- 19 stitches per 4 inches -- equals 24 inches! Yay!) This works long as you still like the resulting knitted fabric, that is, it isn't too loose, but a small gauge change like that should be fine.

Don't you ADORE Ravelry? I think it's going to be (heck it already is) one of those things you are going to ask yourself how you ever lived without!

Ooh, I love it!

Yeah, Anita, what Cathy-Cate said! ;0)

Thanks for the great idea! I know what my fiance is getting for Christmas!

I made that hat a couple weeks ago, but for me and I used a very feminine yarn. LOVE it.

I just printed that pattern off this week. The Seaman's Cap by Needle Beetle is a good one too.

I wish I'd thought of that before I spent two hours searching for a newsboy hat pattern for my seven-year-old, who has to dress in period clothing for his Ellis Island simulation at school. Drat.

Amazing!!! I was looking exactly for a pattern like that this very morning on Ravelry... and it's also for a Christmas present for a guy! :P I didn't find this one but ended up downloading another cabled hat pattern from this same blogger: http://smariek.blogspot.com/2007/06/utopia-hat.html
Now I can choose hehehe :)