FO: Godric's Hollow Hat

When you get close to the end of knitting something, it's a lot like reading a great book. You knit fast and stay up way past your bedtime because you're so close. That was the situation for me last night as I wrapped up the Godric's Hollow hat.

I don't normally block hats because I knit them to fit and I find that blocking often stretches them and they become too large or baggy. Because the stitches looked like they could use some blocking, I tried the spray bottle method rather than my usual wet block. I do think it caused the hat to grow less, but it was still a little too large when I tried it on this morning. I used my blow dryer to try to shrink it a bit and that seems to have shrunk it slightly. I've never thought to blow dry my knits before!

I'm pretty happy with the hat, although if I were to knit it again with this yarn, I would go down to a size 4 needle. There weren't too many other modifications. I started with 80 stitches instead of 120 and kind of fudged the decreases based on some other Ravelry notes. It was a really quick knit despite the multiple froggings. I worked on it at my own leisure over 4 days. It probably would've only taken me two had I not had to rip back.

Hopefully I can get this sent out tomorrow along with my Dad's socks. And speaking of socks...

 

 

I started a pair of Leyburn last night. More on that as it develops.