Quickie Fall hat

DAL2008haust 117, originally uploaded by Ove and Lucia.

I promised you some trip photos from Hunderfossen. They will come, but not in this post. In this post I really really want to show you a super easy and fast-to-knit cabled hat.

This hat is an emergency hat because I lost my little red hat on the train on the very day we left for Hunderfossen. I took the hat off, placed in on my lap, fell asleep like a log, woke up in a shock as the train stop at Oslo S. I hurried off the train. The next thing I remember is watching the train driving away, with my lil red hat.

In the few hours after i left the hat, I started visioning a messy-haired and cold me on a windy Norwegian mountain top, complaining and pissing off everyone. I admit that the nerves took me. I told Ove that we needed some serious crisis-management. And quick we needed to act. I took a turn to a yarn shop after work, grabbed two balls of yarn, a set of 5mm dpn, and ran for the train heading to Hunderfossen.

I believe that up till today the hat definitely has sensed the competition in the woolly side of my world. There is always other knitting projects going on. It happened that I had the magazine Knit Simple 2007 in my bag, because I planned to knit the never-ending-browny-sweater-for-Ove during the trip, and that pattern is from that magazine. Together with the magazine and the sweater are another VK magazine and, you bet it, another UFO sweater which is based on a VK pattern. Because I also planned to work on that sweater. Besides, I had a pair of unfinished socks. But I guess you see why the two sweaters had a good trip, but still remain UFOs, actually they had grown not a single stitch more during the trip. And the socks? Let's forget the socks.

OK, back to the hat. It is pattern no. 30 from Knit Simple Holiday 2007, designed by Erssie Major. I did not use the recommended yarn type, and you can find more info of the hat on my Ravelry.

What I want to tell you about this hat is that it is super fast to knit. I spent less than 4 hours on it, and I am definitely not a quick knitter and got distracted constantly, well, almost. And it is hard to tell you how much I enjoyed knitting it and how much I love it. I brought it everywhere before it was done: in the woods, met some amazing color,

tried out its future habitat,

and breathed some fresh mountain air.
And the hat and Lucia have been living happily since. I have been wearing it every day since. Only need to remember to put it in my bag before I fell asleep on the train.