I get the majority of my knitting and crochet patterns from Ravelry. I really love that site. It has a full database for all sorts of patterns, which is really easy to use. It also has a yarn database, which is useful when I have yarn but I don't know what to do with it.
So I was searching for a pattern to make a hat for Cassie. At first I wanted to try some intarsia, which is knitting with different blocks of colour, but I failed miserably at it, and was too discouraged to try again. So I found a pattern from Lion Brand for a Cavendish hat. Here's the link for those interested (http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/90276AD.html).
Anyways, it took me about a week to make the hat, but actually I wasn't working on it very often. The ribbing took me forever. The cables weren't that difficult, but I'm glad I didn't use a cabling needle. It's much easier to just grasp the stitches by hand, and maneuver them around on the needles.
The final product is quite nice. I wish I had a softer yarn to work with, as I cheaped out and used Bernat softee chunky for the hat. To make the hat more girly, I added a large pompom. I don't have a pompom maker, so the pompom looks a bit rough. I might have to trim it down, depending on whether Cassie likes the pompom or not.
