This isn't the "I finished my tea cozy" post because I haven't.

Okay, so, my mother works with a nice woman. (I've actually met her; she is, in fact, quite nice.) This woman has a hat, which my mother covets. The woman nicely loaned my mother the hat, so she could make one just like it.

Y'all know what that means as well as I do, right?

So, here's my schematic of the Very Nice Hat, and the photos I took so I could work from it:
Yes, I can read it, and it makes sense to me.


The Hat

7 honeycombs per vertical panel 4 per the horizontal on top	OMG. Thermal Undewear Stitch. Remember how I said I'd never use it? Clearly I was wrong. This is NOT k1p1 rib. Sigh.
Brim is knit separately in garter stitch and stitched on.	Twisted rib - definitely a design choice
definitely 3 border stitches	Top is just sewn I should be able to k2tog as I go.

Well, there you have it: I need to create this hat. I've already done two tests-and-frogs. At first, I thought there was subtle sloping on the neckband - but there isn't, it's jut the cast off. And somehow I missed that there were two buttons (yeah, you'd think I'd look at the pictures after not seeing them for eight hours, right? No. Not me.)... and what I got doesn't have the same feel, at all. So the twisted rib is actually pretty important!

I got through one repeat of the first honeycomb rows twice - the first time, I tried a 1-over-6, and it looked OK, but not right, so tried traditional 1-over-4, and that's not it either. I'm gonna need better pictures, or more time wiht the hat. I'll be frogging everything again, and starting over... and there's got to be a way I can fit this into one of my HPKCHC classes!!