I'd picked this pattern out well before our trip to San Francisco, then while engaging in some serious stash enhancement during our adventures there, I came across some Jo Sharp Desert Garden Aran Cotton yarn. This stuff is really wild. It's 65% cotton and 35% microfiber. The microfiber gives it a lot of smoothness, spring and bounce, so much so in fact that strands of it remain almost eerily tubular. Combined with cotton's flatness of color, the yarn almost looks like clay, which means you get some amazing stitch definition.
It was one of the recommended yarns for the pattern, so I got started on the pattern almost immediately. I needed something to work on when we got back to the hotel room and were braindead from a full day of San Francisco excitement.
The pattern knit up quickly and the yarn was a great match for it. The design is a clever spiral of yarn overs and knit togethers, not actual cables. Best of all, this hat actually fits!
