6 sts/in

What else do you do when you have yarn left over? Knit a coordinating hat.

My gauge is larger than the yarn called for in the pattern, so I did some basic math and determined that the correct brim size was the second size in the pattern, and I followed the length directions for the original size. Make sense?

I used the 11 x 11 stitch snowflake because it looks like a slightly smaller version of the one I put on the Elsa Cardigan, which I thought would fit better on the hat.

Materials that aren’t yarn:

• Beads: Seed bead, Delica®, glass, silver-lined crystal, (DBL41), #8 round. I ordered a million of them because I wasn’t sure how many I would want to include. (More is always better.)

• Oral B Superfloss for applying the beads, using the brilliant Rosemary Hill’s tutorial.

• Matching stitch markers.