My First Cable Hat!!!

I'm so excited! I completed my first cable hat and I really like it! I learned to cable awhile back, but never put it on anything. It turns out that it's not as hard as I thought. I decided to put my cables on a hat because they're fast to make, I know how to make them, and I can wear it now! A big mistake I used to make while cable knitting was not being consistent with putting the stitches on the cable knitting in font and then the next one in back, when it should be consistent with in front or in back. The brim of the hat is knit behind the stitch and purl one. Knitting behind the stitch is so cool! Instead of going through the knit stitch through the front, you go behind! 

I really love this yarn that I used for the hat. It has a very beautiful earthy tone and I like how the other colors work into it. It looks very pretty, especially with more complicated styles of knitting. Cables are not so complicated to me, now that I've practiced them a lot. Isn't that so wonderful to be able to say that now something that was once hard now comes more naturally to you? I love that! It's such a nice moment to finally get something that you've been trying to work on for a long time. It happens a lot with knitting and it's so satisfying when your frustration becomes satisfaction. 

I've really been enjoying the song from the movie Coraline called Exploration. They play it when she's exploring the house because she's bored in the beginning of the movie. It's a really sweet song. The Laika films (the production company that created Coraline and other amazing films) is so fantastic. They so carefully produce every item with so much detail and work hard to create their films. It's so wonderful to see and makes me want to work that hard on my art. That's why I'm going to keep pushing myself in my knitting. Knitting is very special to me and I haven't had that much time to work on it. I am still working on my sack, however. It is about halfway done. I left it at school so that I can focus on more complicated projects during winter break.