Jennyarn

The Koolhaas hat is said to be inspired by the work of Rem Koolhaas,
a Dutch architect. This is a hat I had to try.

Does Charlie like the hat?

This hat involves all that reordering of stitches known as cabling.
There is so much of that cabling business going on in this hat that
it’s a good candidate for cabling without a cable needle. Brilliant!

Madeleine oversees my progress.

Or so. I spent more time trying to learn how to do this crafty finagling
than I did knitting! I started off with the clearest understanding of
no-cable-needle cabling to begin with.

Gradually, any understanding unraveled as I read savvy descriptions,
I looked at diagrams and I watched videos. The explanations other
knitters found most valuable I found most confusing. I wondered if
I was a good candidate for a brain transplant. I felt doomed. Then
I remembered I could still knit the confounded hat. Hey, I could just
use a cable needle! Brilliant.

All that cabling calls for a good nap.

You know how people dye yarn using Kool-aid? Maybe that would make
for a nice Koolhaas hat. I didn’t think to try that. But I was good and used
some yarn on stash, Cascade 220.