Pretty cunning, don’t ya think?

I must say. When knitting on such longer projects as socks, vests, scarves and unending babythings, it’s comforting to pick up some big needles, big yarn, and knit a hat.

Knitting Jayne hats only takes me about 3 or 4 hours. Closer to 4 in this case, because I frogged back a little while figuring out improvements to the pattern. I think I’ve finally come out with a nice, customizable pattern that is most authentic to the original hat that I’ve been able to achieve thus far. Every hat I have made has been different. The first ones strayed the farthest from the moviehat…

…as per this example, which was one of my first two, given to my two buddies who introduced me to the show. This one was mostly Dryope’s pattern, with a few of my own additions thrown in. The red was too bright, and the colours contrasted a little too much and the hat was overall a little… small. Needed to be a little oversized and not-fitting.

Through the thread I started on Craftster, I found some other Craftsters that had knit their own varieties, particularily Emisanboo, who, since posting on the thread, now gives page 3 of the thread tons of Google hits and sells Jayne hats and kits like a madwoman on her site (go girl!). I tried her pattern for a few of my hats, and while it was a vast improvement over the one I had originally made (oversized, proper sized earflaps), It still wasn’t quite what I wanted. I wanted it to be more movie-ish.

It just so happens that Alafoss Lopi, the shaggy Icelandic wool I use for my Jayne hats, brought out some new warm colours recently, and had just the colours to match the hat(namely, 0065 for the top, 9971 for the base and 9988 for the flaps, though I might experiment with 9964 for the top). Seemed to be the closest I could find in Lopi, which, after a few hats of experimentation, is my favorite yarn to work with for the hats, because after washing it once, it is a lot softer than before.

I had made a good 6 or 7 hats using this colour yarn, altering the pattern a little every time…

and generally liked it. This one is my own, the one I kept for myself.

As I posted yesterday, I picked up some of the new colours to give them a whirl. Knit a new hat over the span of watching two movies.

The colours are much more akin to Jayne’s original hat than my last incarnations…

This specific hat was for a bit of a small head, so I cast on less stitches and the hat is a little small on my head. Most hats, I knit in the size of the previous hat. I very much like the new colours.

Comparison of the old colours and the new:

Slowly getting the hang of this new camera.

More hats will be knit. For now, I focus on sock and baby.