It’s far overdue, but welcome to my first post of 2013! Since I last wrote, I’ve been knitting my little fingers off; however, a long vacation and the true onset of winter have gotten in the way of photographing (it’s friggen cold outside!) and blogging (January & February make me lazy) all of my latest projects. I’ve got lots of neat stuff I want to share, so I hope to start posting more regularly again.

Anyway, to kick off the new year I’d like to introduce my version* of Brooklyn Tweed’s Porom.

*I say “my version” because I messed up. A lot.

I whipped up this hat back in November, and I did it in a bit of a rush. I was about one week away from my yearly momijigari expedition to Kyoto, and I wanted a new hat. I still had a few skeins of this yellow yarn that my friend had bought in Korea, and after scouring the internet for patterns I finally settled on Porom.

The pattern itself only requires about 180 yards of DK weight yarn and is fairly straightforward, but I was kind of sloppy. On my second night of knitting I noticed that my stitches were no longer matching up with the lace chart. Usually I would go back and fix everything, but since I was working with a deadline and the hat wasn’t going to be gifted, I chose to carry on instead. Luckily the yarn I was using hid a lot of the flaws (I definitely wouldn’t have gotten away with it had I been using something with more stitch definition), and the final product ended up being good enough to sport during my weekend away.

I’ve been an admirer of Brooklyn Tweed’s patterns since I started knitting two years ago, but this was the first time that I actually made the plunge and bought one. I’ll definitely be buying from them again, and I’ve already got my eye on a few patterns from their new Winter 2013 look book!