This purple top is the Flower Toggle hat from Lucinda Guy's Handknits for Kids. I'm teaching another beginning knitting class, where we make hats, so it's ANOTHER hat for wee one! I had just seen Lille-ursus finish one of these hats and was inspired. I've had this wonderful book since wee one's baby shower - it's about time I made something from it for her! And there just happened to be this Debbie Bliss Pure Cashmere in our sale bin. Yuuummm. (And on super-sale, it doesn't even matter that there's really only like 35 yards on the skimpy, lying little hank!)

The pattern is lovely, the pink is the exact shade of wee one's coat and I know she looks good in purple. Unfortunately, it's too small. Grrrr. The pattern calls for a laughably small number of stitches for size 2-3 yrs. I knit about two rows of that and knew instantly that it was more like a newborn size. I added several more stitches and knit the above in class this week, but it's still not large enough. I should have looked it up on Ravelry first, then I would have known that I'd need at least 30 more stitches than the pattern called for! Double grrrr.

Well, it's a good lesson for my beginners to learn: everybody rips, everybody reknits. Even the teacher.