Well, I have these two balls of pink alpaca and less hats than I would like, so this seemed a pretty good idea. Plus, I do most of my knitting while watching TV, so it seems right that I’m doing a tam inspired by one of those shows. Glad that I wasn’t the only one noticing all the cute knits (among other awesome costumes) they’re using.

So I started this a couple weeks back and had to frog it halfway through twice because I got a bit confused with the counting and keeping track of my rows. Then I decided that it was going to be a gift for a friend so had to finish it, like, asap. My third try started this past Saturday and finished today, taking up almost all my downtime. So it took pretty much a day and a half of heavy knitting, for this version 1.3 to come into existence. It’s still a bit bigger than I would like and I’m using my smallest needles (2.5mm) and was trying very hard to tighten my gauge. It might be time to look into buying some 2.0mms. :-(