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Finished size: Adult
Yarn: SWTC Karaoke (held double)
Needles: Size 10 (size 9 for ribbing)
Pattern: Sunflower Tam from Norah Gaughan’s Knitting Nature

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Started: 24 January 2008 …
Finished: 9 February 2008
made for: me

I originally started with one strand of yarn on 7s & 8s and followed the kids size - and ended up with a kid sized hat. (I had a gauge mishap. well, more of a problem thinking about how the gauge I got would end up.) oops! went back and swatched with the yarn held double and got the book’s gauge for the adult hat. There was much paranoia over whether I’d have enough yarn to finish, but I managed to make it, with maybe a yard leftover.

I don’t like the little i-cord ’stems’ that are often at the center of tams, so I made it really short and tacked it down to the hat. Like many people who’ve listed this project on Ravelry, I found that it’s a bit large - the ribbing isn’t tight at all (maybe I should have gone down another needle size for that?).

perfect timing for finishing this up - we’re in another cold snap. (currently it is -8F, with the windchill around -28.)