The free baa-ble hat pattern was released for Shetland Wool Week in 2015, and it has been on my To Do list ever since. After finishing my Mind the Gap socks I got to celebrate by casting on a new project (never mind the others already in work) and I knew I wanted to take on the Baa-ble!
This hat came together quickly in a week, and I love the yarn I used. My sister helped me pick the colors from my stash and I love the low contrast gray she gunned for as the sky! I used plucky traveller aran for everything except the cream for the sheep–that was a fluffy eco duo yarn that adds just the right amount of fuzzy to the sheep.
I got so excited about finishing the hat that I forgot to add the pompom! I haven’t yet decided whether it needs one, so I may be back with updates! In my past experience with plucky traveller, it grew with blocking, so I have been scared to block this one but trust that the tension issues will disappear once I do!
The pattern was easy to follow and this was a mostly quick knit with the exception of the sheep section with involved very long carries and several rows with all three colors. I was grateful for my experience with my Christmas hat in managing the long carries and inevitable tangled chaos of managing three balls of yarn at one time, but at the same time I was asking myself how I got into such a mess so soon after swearing off ever doing colorwork that didn’t abide by fair isle rules! It couldn’t have been too terrible, though, since I immediately cast on a second baa-ble hat after finishing this one!
