Okay, I have to admit defeat. This hat at this gauge and with this yarn….is not going to work. RIP first attempt at my Iris Hat.
I am flat going to run out of yarn on this project. My needles are too small and the stitch count is too high. Not to mention that I can’t get this brim over my head. It’s weirdly to dense and small. All around failure.
I ran over to my LYS, which is closing, and grabbed some US 10s on a 16 inch circular cord so I can frog this hat and restart. I will:
- Use bigger needles
- Modify the stitch count down
- Reduce the height of the folded brim
- Possibly consider a straight cast off and go for the cat ears look?
Good news, is that I haven’t wasted that much time and this should get up and going quickly again. Thank goodness for bulky yarn. I am not even going to rewind this. I am finding the other end of the yarn and knitting the new hat from the old hat, lol.
Happy Knitting!!
My Tangled Yarn Knitting Adventures 
Sometimes the yarn is right, and sometimes it’s wrong.
I hate having to frog a project that I really wanted to knit but it’s not working out the way I wanted. The yarn is pretty tho :). Your yarn store is closing for the night or are you losing your yarn store?
Closing the one closest to me anyway.
we lost all our small privately owned yarn stores, only big box now, sigh.