…and are old-school video-game nerds, be sure to check out Sprite Stitch.

I’d never thought of it this way before, but stitching really is the perfect medium for reproducing pixelated 8-bit graphics.

Pattern: My Herringbone Hat
Yarn: A Malabrigo-like handpainted, chunky handspun wool, in an unknown colorway purchased from eBay
Needles: Addi Turbos, US 10 (6mm)

I’ve was hoping for nice-ish weather so I could photograph this outside, but this is the forecast for the rest of the week:

• Snow
• Snow likely
• Chance snow
• Chance rain/snow

So we’ll have to make do with a photo of me, sitting in front of my very cluttered bulletin board.

I am an obsessive matchy-matchy sort of person, and it has long bothered me that my My So-Called Scarf had no companion for my head.

I had already started swatching the herringbone pattern, trying to figure out how to best convert it to the round, when I randomly Googled “my so-called hat” and found moonfrog’s pattern.

End of swatching. Cast on!

I sort of winged it with the size of the hat, wrapping the band around my head until it seemed right, and then picking up stitches until I ran out of space.

One Super Bowl and several episodes of American Gladiator later (it took several episodes because I have irresistible urges to jump up and down and pump iron while watching that show, and I have yet to figure out how to juggle free weights and knitting needles at the same time), I have a matchy-matchy hat!

Other entries about My Herringbone Hat:

• Solution: Generosity

My dilemma about the differently-sized cuffs has been solved, in much the way that Tamar suggested. I wasn’t sure it would work, as I have teeny tiny hands and wrists. Anyone with smaller hands than me likely has an age in the single digits.

I knit semi-regularly with a bunch of fellow grad students. Last weekend, we had a round of Cinderella-esque (or O. J. Simpson-esque) mitten-trying, and one girl did turn out to have smaller hands than me. She will be getting a pair of Anemoi Mittens, courtesy my Continuing Problems with Gauge.

But I did also cast on for something simple, single, and in a chunky wool.

I got this far during the Super Bowl and an episode of American Gladiators. From here on out, it’s all stockinette, baby!