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Aaaaaaand now we put it all back together. ⁠ ⁠

Aaaaaaand now we put it all back together. ⁠
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At least hat tops are quick. But if you'd like to swear at this a bit for me while I work, I'd take it as a kindness.

Sigh. No. Bad. Wrong. Do not like.⁠ ⁠ I mean I

Sigh. No. Bad. Wrong. Do not like.⁠
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I mean I *thought* I would like it. I tried to like it. There are circumstances in which I could be convinced to like it. But no.⁠ Not this time. Not with this hat.⁠
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So now, we rip. ⁠
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And swear.⁠
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And rip.⁠
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And swear.⁠
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Luckily we can multitask!

It's swatching time again! ⁠ ⁠ I don't think t

It's swatching time again! ⁠
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I don't think this will end up being the one I go with, but I kind of like showing off the swatches that don't work out too. The stitch pattern I want to use is a little big to use with yarn this fat and still be able to offer a lot of sizes (if your stitch pattern is 18 stitches across, and you're working at 4 stitches to the inch, that's more than four inches for each stitch repeat, and that's way too much space between sizes when you're talking about a hat).⁠
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There are ways to work around that, but I have something fairly specific in mind for this project, so I think going with a slightly smaller yarn will be the way to go.⁠
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But, just because I know someone out there will want to know, this is officially Baah Yarn's Sequoia base in the color Cityscape.⁠
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I say officially because mine is very very different from the pictures I saw online (to the point where I wondered if I'd gotten the wrong color by accident when I opened my package, since the pictures I saw when I ordered looked like gray yarn with teal and mustard bits and in person this looks like light teal yarn with dark teal, mustard, and forest green bits).⁠
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It's still lovely! I will certainly find a use for it at some point. It's just not what I thought I was buying.⁠
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That said, color is just really hard online. Like basically impossible. So you sort of have to expect a certain amount of difference from what you see on your screen when you order online. Which is one of the seven thousand reasons local yarn shops are such a valuable resource and you should make a point of supporting them when you can. And just as soon as I finish putting my immune system through its paces with these lovely jabs, I will go back to shopping in them all the time!⁠
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But not for a few more weeks. For the next six weeks any yarn I need will be ordered online and I will damn well be grateful for the folks doing all the work to make that possible.⁠
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Though if anyone haaaaaappens to know someone doing a super bulky, single ply that's actually gray with teal and mustard bits, I'm totally all ears!⁠
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We should talk about blocking. I mean of COURSE we

Yeah yeah, unblocked, but it shoooooooould be enou

Yeah yeah, unblocked, but it shoooooooould be enough to give you the sense of the thing!⁠
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Just enough crumple/structure/shaping to be delightfully dramatic, not so much that you worry people will think you're wearing a tea cozy on your head.⁠
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And, for anyone wondering at home, it's a reknit of the Lucent pattern (which has been away for far far too long and deserved to come back). Should be out shortly (sort of depends on how I feel the rest of this week...I just had my first jab and am busily building antibodies as you read this, and I've officially decided that is more important than sticking to my own self-imposed and totally arbitrary schedule...but soon!).⁠
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Yarn is @littlefoxyarn's Bōsa in the Lake House color (and it's delightfully glowy in that way that yarns with a bit of silk and yak have).

There we go, all picked back up and with just the

There we go, all picked back up and with just the most delightful bit of crumple and rumple to it.⁠
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Now bear with me, this is totally in that stage where *I* know it's going to be lovely and sculptural and dramatic once it's blocked, but you could totally be forgiven for thinking it looks like a pile of damp tissues. But stick with me, it'll be lovely here in a bit!

Oh yeah baby...runs in your knitting On Purpose. ⁠
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Please remain calm, all will be well.⁠
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I super duper pinky swear I have not misplaced my marbles. This will be unspeakably fetching in the end.⁠
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It just looks a wee bit alarming for a minute here in the middle. ⁠
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Stand by!

Ahem. Are you ready for the fun part? Because we'r

Ahem. Are you ready for the fun part? Because we're about to pause and do the fun part. And by the fun part I mean the bit with the crochet hook and the nerves of steel. ⁠
⁠Feel free to make yourself a calming beverage of your choice and have your smelling salts to hand.

Oh...oh there we go. I think we have a winner!⁠

Oh...oh there we go. I think we have a winner!⁠
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This is Bōsa from @littlefoxyarn in the color Lake House.⁠
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And it basically just glows. Which I am in no way going to manage to properly show you in *all* the progress photos (because I do this scandalous thing where sometimes I knit in the evenings or on cloudy days when the light is not conducive to making yarn look all glowy). But we'll see what we can do at the end at least!

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