Winter hat 1 of 5, check.

I finished knitting Charlie's winter hat a few weeks ago.  But I never got around to posting about it because I still need to steam block it--our iron is dying a slow, leaky death and I have yet to pick up a new one. 

The pattern is called "Turn a Square" by Jared Flood. More details and my notes can be found on Ravelry by clicking the image

Mother Nature, however, apparently cannot wait for me to run my errand and has decided to go ahead and make it cold outside.  She seemingly is also ignoring the calendar because temperatures at certain times of the day are dipping pretty low considering it is only October.  Now, I've lived in Northern Virginia for quite some time.  And so I'm pretty used to erratic weather.  But this shift was completely without warning--we were wearing tees and shorts during a pop up heat wave merely a week and a half ago.  And I'm pretty sure that a neighbor went so far as to put out their slip n slide.  But now it's cold. 

And that, my friends, is the story of how the unblocked hat was placed into immediate service during some late night furniture painting in the garage.  The End (because I have moved on to knitting winter hat 2 of 5 and there is no chance that hat 1 will ever be blocked).   

Sandra