I stayed up till about 2am finishing a dozen triangles of my Lucy Neatby Equilateral Hat. Guess what? Yesterday afternoon sometime, I followed the map wrong and put a triangle on the wrong side (each triangle is built on one side of the previous one). Yes, the mistake happened while I was fully awake. That’s how it goes sometimes.

I kept wrapping the hat around to admire it the whole time I was knitting it. And somehow it looked as though it fit together just fine. But this morning I got up and eagerly began to sew the strip into a hat, or most of one.

But one triangle is wrong. And that means I can’t put it together as planned.

The triangle I mounted incorrectly is number 8. In the photo above, the sewing needle marks the spot where I goofed. I have also highlighted it here in the map I was supposed to be following.

My mistake, I think, was in sewing together the top of the hat too soon. I was worried that I would not be able to do the proper graft/seam and so I jumped in and did that part… also that made it a little easier to manage the strip as I was knitting. But that made it harder to see that I had turned right where I should have turned left. Whoops!

If it were a solid color, I could snip the yarn and do some grafting. However, with this continuous color change (and only 5 triangles to reknit) I think I’ll be ripping this thing out and starting over at triangle 8. So much for staying up till 2am!

Note: The yarn is Noro Kureyon, Color 180, Lot A. I got it at Rae’s Yarn Boutique. I know someone will ask!

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