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In preparation for the upcoming fall season, I went ahead and did what millions of other knitters have done for (to?) their kids: knit Henry a pumpkin hat. I used Debbie Bliss Merino DK for the orange and Plymouth Encore DK for the dark green border. The woman at the yarn shop suggested I make the medium size because the guage on the pattern was 5 sts/inch, whereas the yarn I purchased was 5.5 sts/inch. After I swatched, it turned out that I met the guage of the pattern without having to adjust the needle size so I was able to knit the small size after all without having to make any changes. It was a lot of fun to knit and worked up really quickly. The only problem I ran into was when I had to pick up stitches from the green border with the orange yarn. I way overthought what I was supposed to do and thus did the wrong thing. Easy problem to fix after the obligatory five minutes of head-smacking and "duh"-ing.

You know how every time you pick up a book of children's knits the models always have a blissed out "I can't believe I'm wearing this gorgeous knitted garment" look on their face, even when the kids are only a few months old? Well, there has to be some balance in the universe, so I give you this: