Another knitty hat

I can't cross it off my list until I blog it.

This is copies 2 and 3 of this hat I made. I started in June at a meeting. The night before, I realized I had no knitting projects, so I pulled these together. The pattern is from knitty and it knits up quick! Since I finished the first one in less than a day, I started the second. I finished the second on the second day of the meeting and started the third. I just finished the third a couple of days ago. I really messed up the pattern on the third one, but it must have been fatigue/boredom - I also ran out of brown yarn.

The first one turned out really great and I promptly gave it away, so no pictures. We actually don't have any use for these - it is just a stash busting exercise - so I'll probably donate them somewhere. The yarn is my favorite chunky wool. I had a lot left over from other projects, so I had started a sweater for myself, then I realized I actually never wear sweaters and certainly not chunky ones, so I ripped it out. I've still got enough yarn for another 3ish hats. This base pattern is great, but maybe I'll make something up off it . . .

64 stitches in the round, size 11 needles
5 rounds in 1x1 ribbing
20 rounds of knit
[ssk, k2tog, k14] x 4
decrease until 8
draw yarn through and tighten

hat #2 - the top is brown:
hat #3 - the top should be brown and the circles should have swapped colors by row: