Just a vent tonight about a hat I've been knitting from my Winter Wonderland yarn.  I have frogged this freaking (frogging) hat so many times that I've lost count.  Tried to make a roll brim with seed stitch and it turned out to be big enough for a giant, plus the brim didn't roll much due to all the beads and sequins in the yarn, and my seed stitch sucked...pearls where there should have been knits, knits where there should have been pearls, aargh.  (Note to self--and others if you're listening--do not take seed stitch projects out and about to work on where you can't concentrate.  It wil not work out right and you'll be sorry.)  Next I settled on k3p3 rib changing over to stockinette, which went along fine.  I wanted to do some fancy openwork as a kind of top beyond the peak--a little detail to match the neck warmer I made with the other skein, and it's failed twice so far.  The latest version looks like a blender got hold of it.  Whose dumb idea was it to make those twisty dreads at the top edge anyhow?  Oh yeah.  My brain said "don't do it" but my hands did it anyhow.  I saw this technique on TV once and had to try it for myself.  Bad idea, I tell ya.  Like Dr. Seuss on steroids...which gives me an idea:  maybe congress can investigate my hat  and stop wasting time (and our tax dollars) on Roger.

Alright, enough baseball talk.  It will be summer before I get this thing finished, but I am so determined NOT to let another thing go into the UFO heap.  I love making things up as I go along, but this goes to show that sometimes a pattern is worth a couple of bucks, no?

Off to frog and give it one more try before I cash in the chips and make it a plain old beanie.  One good thing comes from all the cussing and griping I've put myself through for this hat:  I learned that my handspun can take the ripping, hold up and still look great.  That's a plus that I had counted on, but it's nice to be sure.