FINISHED THE HAT!

    If you've never knitted before you might not understand, but finishing a knitting project is a very exciting feeling (especially when it requires doing something tedious and annoying, like cable-knit). At the risk of sounding like a huge dork, when I am approaching the end of a knitting project a feverish feeling of "I MUST FINISH THIS" comes over me. I guess I could say that it is similar to the feeling of nearing the end of a really good book that's 1,000 pages long. If ya know what I mean. 

Photo courtesy of me!

    There were definitely a couple of occasions during the process of finishing the hat when I thought I dropped stitch (if you drop a knitted stitch the WHOLE thing unravels!), and so for several stressful minutes had to search for the stitch. . .it was bad news bears. But it all turned out ok! No grey hairs here! It is definitely a very warm hat, appropriate for winters in Providence, RI (ugh, it's so freaking cold!). Annoyingly, the band of ribbing is a tiny bit looser than it should feel, but I wasn't about to buy a smaller set of needles for those few rows. A university student's budget doesn't really include having knitting needles of every size at hand. Let's not be extraneous here, it is a sustainable hat after all! Let's examine the footprint of the hat: so the sweater was originally made in Mauritius, but I bought it used just up Thayer street, no additional animals were shorn to harvest the cashmere, so no additional land use or water. I did not have to order the yarn to get it delivered to me, though it did travel to New York with me during thanksgiving, but I don't think that counts. It might use more material than a hat with a simpler pattern, but it is prettier and warmer, so I'd rather it not be cold and ugly. But I like to think that the recycledness offsets the amount of yarn used, although the difference in amount of yarn used from one hat to another could be so negligible that this is arbitrary to consider. Well, thanks Ros and Nana for all your help!