The Shedir hat is just so pretty. And it's even prettier on a baby.

A big thanks to Jo for posting her mods to make a baby-sized shedir! My girl is actually a toddler now (a toddler?! can you believe it?!), so I upped Jo's numbers a bit to find a size between the baby shedir and the adult shedir. I cast on 112 stitches, which is seven pattern repeats, and worked 4 repeats of the main cable pattern. Like Jo, I skipped most of the plain knitting rounds between decrease rounds at the top. The finished hat doesn't quite cover wee one's ears fully (that calmer loves to shrink up), so I probably could have kept those rows in after all. I'd estimate it took about three-quarters of a ball of calmer (which is good, because I didn't have a full ball of this color to start with).

Finishing this one was a bit of a struggle for me, since I kept messing up those rows where the starting marker moves. I simply don't have the head for knitting anymore like I used to. I'm too tired at the end of the day to do semi-complicated knitting without screwing something up. But I hung in there. For this...

Oh yes, the boys have the day off from school. According to our school district it's a "day of low attendance" (due to Rosh Hashanah), so they just give us the day off. Which means moms like me are looking for something to do with their kids all day. Today, we chose the aquarium. (Gotta come up with something for next Thursday....)

wee one said "oooohhhh" each time she spotted a fish

Despite the fact that the boys have only been in school for a total of 6 hours in the last 4 days and have been trapped inside because of the rain most of the other hours, I did manage to restart the ill-fated baby shedir hat.

It fits now and I'm loving the cables, so I'm not even going to go back and fix that little goof in the cable near the beginning (please tell me you can't see it!).

Man, could I use a day off.

The knit pirates can't believe that we forgot to check the needle size when we started knitting a baby-sized Shedir hat for wee one! It's way too big, so now we'll have to rip it out and start over again. Say it with me: aaaaarrrgh!