I love this hat!

It is fast, it is easy, it is gorgeous…. And it looks incredibly rich and festive in red! All three of the Esther Williams hats I have knit so far, (red included) have been knit with Lamb’s Pride. I know that some of you will knit it with something else, (and I did have the thought that if I were a good little pattern writer, I’d do one in another worsted weight yarn, just to see how it’d go), but I love how it looks in Lamb’s Pride. I like the single ply, the slight sheen, and the mohair fuzziness. It’s just SO pretty, that I haven’t wanted to use anything else. This one is being knit with their Raspberry color. The pink one is Victorian Pink, and the white one, I don’t remember the name of, but it’s still Lamb’s Pride.

I’m two decrease rounds into the red one so far, and I might flip-flop a couple rounds just to see what happens. My friend Gayle couldn’t come over yesterday, but I’m hoping that sometime over the weekend, we’ll get the crochet worked out. I am traditionally very anti-crochet, but I am growing up a bit, and I realize that it has its place. The edge of my Esther Williams hat is one of them.

Thank you all for your comments yesterday. I enjoyed them. There were some inquiries about names, and we do have one boy name, and one girl name that we are very attached to. That being said, I must also say that things can always change at the hospital once we meet the little one, so nothing is in stone. The name Veronica, for example, was low on the list when we had her, and had been crossed off at some point in the elimination process. But there was no question when she came out what her name needed to be.

Our boy name is Clark, and has been for years. We are still hashing out middle names.

Our girl name is Bronwyn, despite the fact that my mom hates it. It has been high on the list with all of our girls, but we haven’t birthed a Bronwyn yet. I feel confident we will get her at some point. It feels inevitable to me.