Escalation

Or, why I can't do anything by half.

Me on the phone with my sister, thinking about knitting a little hat for an imminent newborn baby:
"If I make it little enough, it shouldn't take that much time. And I can just use whatever yarn I have in my stash."

Sister: "Make sure it's long enough to cover the baby's ears."

Me: "Or... [thinking]... I could add earflaps! Wouldn't that be cute?! A little baby hat with little earflaps?! Oh! If I do that, I could put a heart on each earflap! Wouldn't that be cute? [Pause] Oh my god, that would be more work."

So I knit a baby hat. And added
1. Earflaps
2. A heart on each earflap
3. A pom-pom. (This was a somewhat controversial decision because asking the opinion of knitting and non-knitting friends yielded a 50/50 split on whether the pom-pom was necessary. I compromised by trimming the pom pom to make it smaller. But I think the touch of teal at the top balances out the teal hearts on the earflaps.)

And so...


Ta-da! Baby hat of my own design, knit with Cascade 220 white and leftover Patons Classic Merino Peacock. (The hat is for a girl, incidentally.)


Yeah, I stand by the pom-pom.