I finished my Trilobite hat.
I haven’t left the fence I’m on about it though – I still think the top portion is a bit small, and it’s definitely a hair-smasher – but I will have to wait for winter to see if howling winds will still reach my ears through the doubled brim, and if more frequent wear will relax the superwash yarn a bit more (it’s a lovely variegated teal, despite what these pics might show, from the now defunct Schaefer Yarn Co.).
I have enough coldish weather hats, so in order for this to continue to survive as-is, it must work as a freezing weather hat.
Before finishing the brim, I soaked the top part to see if a good block would loosen it up – I had the perfect hat-shaped bowl to use so I didn’t have to take it off the needles – and then a ridiculously hot afternoon dried the whole shebang in a few hours, so I was able to resume knitting that night – and the soak relaxed it a bit, but not quite as much as I’d hoped…
But the thing that most bothers me about the hat is that the trilobites don’t look like my trilobites. I could ramble on about idyllic afternoons of my childhood spent scouring the creek behind our house for fossils, but not today.
But the ultimate fossil-hunting prize was a triolobite – most often rolly-polly stand alone little guys.
They’ve got this smug lippy carp-like expression going on, and their backs have three wide stripy bands – or you know, lobes – what they’re named for after all…
I tried to figure out the order of these vs. the clearly different order for which the pattern was written, but I got frustrated, then distracted…
But if I do end up re-knitting it for a better fit, I’ll make the center lobe much fatter somehow to look more like my guys.
(Taking picture of one’s own head when too lazy to get out the tripod or too impatient to wait until others return home, results in an increase of time wasted due to editing out 10x more image failures more often than not…
And when will I figure out the camera settings, or the editing, to render accurate color…?)
ASTITCHMATISM 
Love the hat, especially the color!
Thank you! And yes, all kinds of teal are showing up around here lately – must be fashionable or something… darn.
Really? I normally go through color phases. This whole teal/blue/green one is new for me…and I guess others too.
Me too – I’m still not a big fan of blue, but toss a little green in and I’m all over it now… I just checked the pantone trend forecasting thing and there’s something that looks a bit more turquoise, so hopefully teal won’t be ruined by the masses yet this year (as if that matters anyway!)