Turtle Thorpe

My son Elias has a big ol' noggin'. Grandma knit him a hat last year for Christmas and he's outgrown it in less than a year. So, I set myself on task for making him a new hat. I found a few patterns I wanted to try and asked the kid which he liked better. I told him it was for someone else, and honestly, I don't think he even remembers. He picked Thorpe. I had brown and green yarn for him, so that worked for me.

I cast on the hat a few days before Christmas (I was running behind and a friend told me it would be a quick knit). I worked on the hat for two days and then decided it was going to be too small. So, I frogged the whole thing, grabbed 10.5 needles instead of the size 9 called for, and started over. In addition, I added 8 more stitches and fudged the pattern a little bit to fit the stitches in. The end result is pictured below.
It is knit in Queensland Collection Super Aussie 100% superwash merino wool. I used 2 skeins of green and 1 of brown. The Thorpe hat has tassels but I decided to leave those off. I would have had to make them green and didn't like that idea.

And, here's the hat in action. You can also visit the project page for Turtle at Ravelry.

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