Pattern: Blue Rabbit Hat by Mel Clark
Yarn: New Lanark DK Yarn, ½ x 50g of Ecru and about ¼ x 50g of Blossom
Needles: 3.25mm circs and dpns

Blame the weather for this post. Sort of. I’ve got three FOs drying at the moment, but the miserable weather means that I’ve had to resort to using my electric fan to encourage them to dry and apparently it dries wool faster than cotton. So the hat is revealed first.

It stands to reason that I’d knit this pattern, and really I don’t mind being doomed. But I had intended to wait until I bought some DK yarn til I looked through my stash on Ravelry and realised that I had some leftovers from the Deep V Argyle Vest. I’d hardly used the pink, because I just bought it as a good contrast for the crocheted steeks. So I had yarn all ready and was fed up with sewing up a baby cardigan with a yarn that untwisted itself and made the sewing even more of a pain, and casting on a hat was a much more appealing option!

The pattern is lovely. Really simple to follow and I love the end result. I did amend the bunnies slightly buy moving the tail up one row on the chart as it was distorting the base of the bunnies, and also made their ears shorter as they were looking like hares. Speaking of the bobbles, even if you never knit the hat, the pattern is worth keeping just for the bobble recipe. I’ve tried various methods over the years and they all without exception look more or less like skin tags rather than juicy round bobbles. But these sit flat against the knitting and are nicely rounded. I’ll be doing all bobbles like this from now on.

The yarn is great, of course, and softens up nicely after washing, so I’ve no qualms about it being too itchy for a baby’s little head. It does make hat number eight for this baby, but who’s counting…