My Utter Effing Frustration!

Can it be that Patwoman has been outsmarted by a hat? Good God. Have you ever thrown your knitting across the room in frustration and rage? And then, when that doesn’t make you feel better, get up and go get the knitting so you can throw it again?

I have tried this balaclava a couple of different ways. I tried to reverse engineer one I saw—basically, the back part comes up over the head and is seamed to the side parts. Nope. Looks too blocky.

So then I ripped that back to the ears and knitted, treating it like a seaman’s watchcap, the first hat I learned to make. I thought the K2tog across decreases would keep there from being those sharp decrease lines you see in beanies. No. Too bunchy.


So I ripped that back and now I’m just going to default to the lined, beanie-style decrease. God damn it. This was such a clever thing that I was doing (not just a hat, but something really clever) and now it’s just turning out to be a lesson in frustration.

Where the hell is that knitting? Time for another flying lesson, hat!