Kalurah/While They Play "Indian Summer" Part I

I love the idea of knitting but I think the reality is that I will never actually be a knitter.  One, I don't have the patience.  Two, my left hand has been ravaged by years of playing musical instruments and doing other hand-stressing hobbies and no longer has the stamina it needs to make me a committed knitter; just knitting a swatch on US6 straight needles caused shooting pains (circulars are much easier on me).  Three, I live in Houston.

I also love the idea of hats but the reality is that I don't like having stuff on my head and I don't really look that good in them.  Some people have "hat faces" (to borrow from Mr. Humphries) and some don't.  I don't.  I don't have hat hair, either.  But that doesn't always stop me.

So I'm knitting a hat.  The real point is that I've never knitted a hat before and this one is cute.  I hope whoever buys it from Goodwill when I finish it, try it on, and remember that I don't have a "hat face" enjoys it.

The pattern is While They Play's "Indian Summer" simple-lace beret, which I got on Etsy but which can also be acquired through Ravelry; there is also a crochet version.  

This chick has a "hat face", by the way.  And hat hair.

The pattern calls for laceweight yarn, doubled, but I'm using natural/white Lion Wool-Ease Sport because I had a huge skein of it that I didn't know what to do with since I never use sportweight yarn, and it's discontinued so I can't get more of it to make anything significant.

Other minor changes:

1) I'm leaving off the button tab.  I just reduced the cast-on stitches and started knitting in the round.

2) I have a lot of hair so I added ten stitches to the number I did cast on.  This was probably a mistake, but we'll see.

3) I did a 2 x 2 ribbing instead of 2 x 3, just because.

4) When I try it next, I'll definitely cast on on smaller needles.  I don't usually bother, but the ribbing is turning out more slack than I'd like.