Tale of Two Hats (Paris, France)

The plan after making my first ever pair of wrist warmers was to make a matching slouchy beret. I found a pattern on Ravelry.com that had a bit of a cable knit to it. Because my yarn gauge did not match the one on the pattern (it was a lower gauge yarn than what was recommended in the pattern), I again, attempted to readjust the pattern by casting on more stitches and adjusting the cable pattern and where to increase the stitches. I felt like after adjusting the wrist warmer pattern, I was a pro.

Boy does being overconfident backfire sometimes!

What I had failed to do is to adjust the number of increase stitches - I kept that the same for the pattern. Needless to say, this slouchy beret turned out not so slouchy. Ok... it wasn't slouchy AT ALL :s It was tight, and the top was loose. I looked like Toad from Mario Bros! LoL Oops! Lesson learned indeed!

Before I went on my trip to Paris in Feb, I had looked up some yarn stores that, if Ed and I had time, we would go check out. Based on my research, the yarn stores in Paris are phenomenal, and it was definitely a pity we didn't get to check out any of them. I was slightly disappointed about not going because after buying yarn in San Antonio, I thought it would be fun to buy yarn from places I travel to. And this is where fate comes to play. For some reason unknown (possibly because we were freezing our buns off outside and needed to warm up!), we found ourselves in Printemps, a department store in Paris. We were just about to leave when I spotted my loot - yarn!! And it was so cheap!! I picked up two balls of gray merino wool yarn to make a replacement hat.

I just had enough to finish my hat :D And this one fits much better, and it slouches... sorta! :D



The one on the left is the first one I knit - can you tell it's too small? LoL