Hats of 2017

This has been a year for discovering the absolute joy of knitting hats. It's a little hard getting excited about wonderful wooly hats when I live in Tucson -- where even in the winter it is sunny and 80 degrees. But once started I really couldn't stop. They are perfect sort of project -- small enough to make in a reasonable amount of time, (and expense! ) and varied enough to learn and practice all manner of new stitches in cables, slip stitches, or just learning how to manage tension. I have three more hats to make over the next month or so -- one with a honeycomb pattern, one with a ridiculous pompom, and one colorwork (a first for me. )