I absolutely adore knitting! I am self-taught and have enjoyed the hobby for probably 15 years. Unfortunately, I haven't knitted much in recent years. Knitting is a much simpler hobby to pick up now with Youtube and so many knitting blogs. 
I taught myself by purchasing one too many knitting books through the years and a few videos recently. I have quite a nice knitting book library. Ashlyn asked me this fall if I could knit her a hat. A hat is something that I've always wanted to tackle, but just never did. Honestly, it just looked too hard to me.
I'm not sure why I considered it a daunting task. I've knitted 3 complex patterned baby blankets…one with sailboats, a gorgeous felted purse for my mom, many scarves and cowls as well. We won't even discuss all the UFOs in my armoire. No aliens here…..just unfinished objects!  First Knitted Hat
I started looking around on Etsy for easy hat patterns and purchased a few. Here's the problem that I ran into. I had tons of yarns that would work, but I had none of the needles required. I had the right circular needle size, but not the right length. Most of my circulars are long for scarves, shrugs and baby blankets. Hats need a much shorter length. 
My local Hobby Lobby didn't have the right length, and I wanted to start it now!
I started looking around Pinterest and low and behold, I came across a hat pattern that called for needles that I had with the proper length!!!!! Score!

So yes, I told Ashlyn that I'...