It’s a real simple beanie made from far less than one skein of KnitPicks Chroma Worsted in the Galapagos colorway. Check out how much yarn I had left after knitting this bad boy:

I’d say I used two-thirds to three-quarters of the skein (I don’t have my digital scale with me, otherwise I’d find out for sure). That’s a $10 hat, people! That’s what I call a good deal.

You know what else is a good deal? I’m giving away this pattern for free! Check out its page on Ravelry for more information or just click here to download the pattern directly (PDF, about 2.1 MB).

I got hacked. A bunch of times. I think it was my web-host’s fault, but it was a huge pain. I work as a web developer, so I knew how to fix the problems, but that last thing I want to do in my personal time is deal with corrupt MySQL databases.

So I wasn’t posting for a while to avoid making changes. If my blog got hacked again, at least I could just revert to the most recent backup and not worry about losing posts. But now I think the problem has stabilized (please, gods of the internet, focus on more hack-worthy sites), and I think it’s safe to dip my toe back into blogging.

But what to blog about? The only knitting I have to report is the successful completion of my mom’s Noro Iro sweater:

I made it for Christmas and she loved it!

Aaaaaand… that’s all folks! More news will come as it’s fit to print. Oh, and happy 2012!