I love the Odessa pattern. I am knitting my third rendition of it now for my mother in law for Christmas. Of course, this is the time around where I make the oddest of my goofs. I have done the beaded rows too close together and thus have a very blingy hat. Hopefully it will not be too blingy, but I think she will like the colors and it is very soft.
I love this hat because the pattern is very forgiving, looks interesting, fits extremely well, and lends itself to quite a lot of variation. I have a few ideas on ways to modify the pattern that would be quite a lot of fun to do without taxing my brain into actually designing something new.
I don't want to be sitting here working. I want to finish knitting Odessa (I am on the decrease rows now).
