Snakes on a Hat!

As promised, here's the skinny on my latest finished object. It is without a doubt the strangest thing I have ever knit: it's a hat that makes the wearer look like Medusa.

It was designed as a hat for a bald baby, and because Sylvia has been hair-challenged most of her life (she's just starting to leave the "bald baby" category), I thought this hat would be cute on her. And it is! Of course, she's still in "I don't want anything on my head" mode these days, so I was lucky to snap this photo before the hat was unceremoniously tossed to the floor. (She's also demonstrating a healthy dose of common sense, too: who in their right mind would wear a wool hat when it's 97 degrees outside with sauna-like humidity?)

I did check gauge for this--I swear I did--but somehow things went wonky anyway. About halfway through, I realized that the hat was turning out way too big for a baby's head. The snakes are easy to make but are pretty time consuming, so I didn't want to frog this and start over. So I figured I'd plug on and end up with an adult-sized hat. The hat doesn't look nearly as cute on a grown-up as it does on a baby, though. But it ended up being not as large as I thought, so Sylvia might be able to wear it after all--if not this winter, then next year. If she will tolerate headgear by then, that is.

If she wears this hat when we travel by air during the winter, then we can say "Snakes on a Hat on a Plane!" Samuel L. Jackson would be proud, I'm sure. (For the non-geeks out there, here's the reference. Ohhhhh, yeah.)