FIRST! Love your hat. Good idea to do the ribbing (dirty!) in smaller needles. I've never done that. Gotta go. My own version of White Men in Ties, Inc. awaits my presence with baited breath. Yuck.

Love the hat recipes - thinking it will be handy for left over yarn in stash. Your hat looks great! KIMBERLING

I think the knitting looks everso great in your workspace...the grey of the yarn compliments the grey of the office equipment. Excellen pattern!

I just learned how to knit in November, and I must say I am totally addicted. I'm with you on the hats & scarves only. Except I might branch out to mittens. It's COLD up here.

Anyway, I took the first of two 'knit a hat' classes last week. And then a work event got moved to the night of the second class, because my life sucks and I hate my job. They were rather mean about it at the place the class is held, refusing to let me take the 2nd class another time. Because they are mean, I tell you!

Thanks to your "Easy Roll Brim Hat" recipe, I was able to finish my hat all by myself, and I walked into the place that teaches the class, WEARING mon chapeau, to say "Nanananananah" and they'd I'd never be back for another one. I don't need them, I've got Purl!

You has empowered me to say "Nanananananah" to the snotty knitting class teachers of Toronto. How's THAT for an accomplishment?

Jeezus! Can somebody help me find my grammar? I seem to have misplaced it...

Looks SO easy - I must try it! Thanks Purl! Glad to see you back online! Happy New Year!!

Love the hat btw. Magnifique!

So if Patons Up Country has an equivelant in Lana Grossa "Caldo", then you have a new fave, right?? (not sure about price comparison but trying to help your stash hording). :D

I have to say that your pattern looks intriguing.

Several of the hats I've made looked a little bit like c*nd*ms (oops) but well, you hat does not.

Despite the ribbing.

Um, that should be "your hat" not "you hat." Geez.

I think hats are great...you can't possibly need a sweater in LA anyway!

Ah-hem...where's the cat picture? I need a Soba fix!

Oh CAP. How do I adore thee? Many many ways, with a bottle of Pinot Noir on top. :)

The hat is quite lovely, but I hope its for a friend, b/c I can only imagine you in fuschias and reds and other bright cheery colors.

Or is that just your cheeks after a few glasses o' vino?

Um, you do realize that after suggesting a yarn substitution for Up Country, complete with gauge information and comments about lopi-ness, you can no longer fool us into believing that you are an unskilled knitting neophyte. Y'all just wandered into expert territory. :) (Did I use y'all correctly? I live in Seattle and that word is hard to come by)

If you're not on a yarn diet, RamWools.com has Patons Up Country in *two* colours. ;)

I have become addicted to knitting hats lately! Almost every yarn I look at finds me thinking, "That would look GREAT as a hat!"

Love the idea of using a smaller needle for the ribbed co. Must start another hat to try it out!

It took me three tries on a fingerless glove recipe to realize that I needed to use smaller needles for the ribbing. How I wish I'd had an Aunt Purl back then to give me the Cliff Notes.

I love your hats. I'm going to try this one next.

Excellent timing! I'm just finishing my second roll-brim hat...second hat ever, actually, and I've been knitting forever. It's absurdly easy! great fun! And now, something new that looks just as fun! Thank you, thank you.

Of course, my cats don't thank you. They don't approve of my hands being full, doing Something Else when I could be devoting all my energy to kitty maintenance. But they learn to live with it. Pan has discovered that if he puts his chin on my hand or arm and goes to sleep, I find him too cute to disturb. This is not a good development for my knitting...but he IS cute. He says hi to your guys.

Me, I miss the Frankie pictures. Never enough Frankie.

Love those hats! I'm currently making a Fair Isle one. Wish me luck, as Fair Isle gauge is a tad more tricky.

But quick and dirty knitting is the best.....

How about a lesson on knitting in the round? Because I've been knitting for a couple of years now.. mainly hats.. and I'm just not getting how to knit in the round! I would love to knit without a huge ugly seam. Do the circular needles come in smaller rounds or something because it seems like I always have extra room on my needles and the ends don't meet to knit in the round.. if that makes sense.. UGH.. thanks though!

lovely. now if only my arm would be functional again, i could knit up something purty.

no knitting since christmas.

this is terrible.

i am living vicariously through you.

I find woolen touques in Southern California a bit hard to understand, but then I remember that temperature is a relative thing - it's 40-F here today and we all are basking in the warmth of a January thaw (North Central Mass). If you like it, Purl, then enjoy! It's a good looking pattern at any rate :)

p.s. where's the cat pix??

I've been making hats like crazy! My two sons, aged 23 and 21 don't like it very much. At Christmas, older son was 'smirking' at younger son while he tried on noro beanie I made for him. I said, "don't smirk buddy , you have one coming just like it". Look on face changed instantly. So funny!

Dear Aunt Purl,
I'm very anxious to make a garter stitch hat in malabrigo: do you think I could use your ERB Hat Recipe and wear it inside-out?

Love to Bob--
Erin.

i like hats. i look ok in hats. but i'm never sure of the hat etiquette. and of course, there is the dreaded hat hair.

i need a hat with a ribbed edge though.

Purl darlin, I have been knitting for three years (practically an expert! Check me out!) and I still love hats and scarves. Socks are fun, and I like to knit mittens, and I just finished my first pair of gloves, but I sure do love to knit hats and scarves. Good thing about the hats, too, because my son is 9 and can't hold onto a hat to save his life. I have made that child more hats than the law allows. And he needs another one, so I better get cracking on your Easy Ribbed-Brim Hat. Thanks for everything! :)

Laurie, you can always practise dyeing the "Silver Mist," as the light color would accept dye well. Cheers, mate.

I understand about only wanting to do hats! Really! I'm glad you told us about the smaller needles thing for the ribbing (makes me wet just typing "ribbing") b/c I made your hat with a k3 p3 ribbing and it was "poofy", or maybe "Fat" is a better word. Now I know! Thanks for the tip! (And if I like the tip can I have the rest of it Sir?) Did I just say that!?!?

I like making baby hats. So quick, so gratifying, such cute models. Perhaps I'll have to do that ribbing on my next baby hat. I've got a shower on Friday the 20th, so will have to get cracking!

How about a pic of one of your cats with a knitted hat?

I should of wrote 'wearing' a knitted hat.

Will you finish it up with a resivoir tip end?????

Ha. Great minds think alike. I've got about 3 inches of ribbing on the needles and was planning to switch to stockinette and finish this baby as a CAP Easy Roll Brim hat (only without the rollbrim, natch). I've made about 5 of the CAP ERB's so far and they're great, but look kinda of silly on my menfolk, so I thought ribbing would jock it up enough. Didn't account for potential rib-poof though. Darn it.

A "Y'all" tutorial for Megan: "Y'all" is a contraction of "You all" and is properly used to address multiple people. It's a very useful word which tells the listener whether the speaker is addressing an individual or a group.

For instance, if you're leaving a gathering and the hostess wishes everyone in the group to feel welcome, she'll say, "Y'all come on over any time." If she says, "You come on over any time," then everybody better check her eye contact and body language because only one of the group is welcome and the rest of y'all been dissed.

Other romance family languages have this form ("vous" in French, "ustedes" in Spanish). Mainstream English used to have it (the difference between "you" and "thou"). I don't know why it was lost from mainstream English, but the Southerners very sensibly re-invented it.

Can't wait to get started on this!!! Got to make a Colts hat for my son really fast!!

Great hat, and that yarn looks sooo soft. I'm going to have to look for some. I haven't knitted a hat yet (I usually crochet and when I do knit, I usually knit flat, though I've made some small socks) and this would be a good first knitted hat project.

Also thanks to Lauren in Austin for the "y'all" tutorial. I live in Seattle too, and have always lived in the North. I've often wished I could just say "y'all" instead of "you guys", which is Northern for "y'all", and sounds kind of funny if addressed to a group sof women. But I'm always afraid someone will accuse me of trying to put on an accent or pretend I'm from somewhere I'm not, or something......

have you ever knitted a willy-warmer? Can you get wool that isn't scratchy?

I do love your hat. I have never made one, but yours is so easy and adorable....I will have to knit your hat after I finish a scarf that I am making for my son's girlfriend. I hope that it gets cold enough here in Southern California (Orange County)to wear or I may send it to a friend in colder region!

DAMN! Your desk is neat! I can barely find space on mine for a glass of water.

Yea! Another Aunt Purl pattern! I'm telling you, we are just WAITING for your book!!
What's going on with the mystery crazy cat thingamajig? Inquiring minds want to know!

Luckily hats roll up nicely -- think how many hats you can fit into your bags for Paris!

I live in Houston and I think the weather is pretty much the same here as it is where you live so I'm wondering, does it ever really get cold enough to wear the stuff you make? I'm considering making a move to somewhere that it gets below 50 degrees in January just so I can get to wear winter clothes for more than 1 day!

Ooooooh! Laurie, Thank you! I'll be making the hat with ribbed brim for my mum! I was looking around for an easy hat recipe to knit up for my mum for her bday in April but couldn't find anything simple enough. Mind you though, I think I'll just let the ribbed brim puff out, because my mum wears the hat to bed, so it shouldn't be tight. This will be my first knit-in-the-round project! But first I need to finish my Yarn-Eating-Monster-Fisherman's-Rib Scarf. *sigh* Thank goodness I found Addi Turbos at last! (for more info on my Odyssey, check out my blog)

I love hats too, but I hate dpns! Have you tried the "magic loop" method? Instead of using dpns, you use a really long circular needle. It's explained in a Fiber Trends booklet. http://www.fibertrends.com/viewer/patterns/0_magicloop.html
It is the easiest thing ever and you NEVER have to use dpns again. It's made me think I even want to try knitting socks!

I learned the rib secret when making a sweater. I never made that mistake again. I have always been a sweater kind of girl. Perhaps it is now time for me to venture into the world of hats. I do have these two skeins that I bought years ago specifically for that purpose.

On the y'all thing - after living in Savannah, Georgia for 8 years, I realized that y'all can be singular, and "all y'all" is the plural.
Didn't Laurie begin a post with the "y'all" usage, back in a warmer month?

Laurie, marymaxim.com still has a few colors other than silver mist, at least they did last week. :)

Oh my...if I don't stop reading your blog at work BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN. People around here have surely noticed the snickering and giggling coming from my cube! Suspicious.
Ya, and I dig the silver mist.

When I was reading the line above "pom-pom" it looked like "porn-porn" out of the corner of my eye. What's wrong with me? Have I caught your porn disease, Laurie?