Well I tackled my first big project – the Froggie Hat – a.k.a. knitting something other than a scarf! Well ok once I finished the hat I made a matching scarf, but you have to knit what you know too.

I have been knitting since I was a young girl – Mostly Scarfs! They don’t really require any thought about what you are doing and the are low commitment items! So since I am all grown up etc I decided it was time to try something different (it also had to do with the fact that we have tons of scarfs running round our house) So on to hats!

I main impetus for this hat was that Chanler’s “girl” friend Sadie has a froggie hat and Chanler spent all of one play date trying to steal it. So I decided that I just HAD to make him one.

Here is the pattern for this hat. I added the embellishment myself.
http://www.needlebeetle.com/free/rollbrim.htm
I found that the 96 stich size will fit on my adult head just fine. I made one with 72 stiches which is a bit small for Chanler at 22 months, but I think it would fit a one year old. I also used size 8 needles (because that is all I had in DPN) so that may have been part of the problem.