Patience is a Virtue

x10 stitches to 1 inch,
10 inch of hat
on x60 pegs = 6000 stitches

I don't follow a pattern in my head I follow the pattern on the table top

Busy in the Hat Workshop

Nancy on Steroids

there's not much you can do with a thin knit tube !

 time to beef it up !

and on a smaller one

One of the hardest jobs was using the, silly, skeins of yarn if you could find the middle after a while of pulling it, it barfed a big tangle out and if you started from the outside it jumped around the room as it unwound ! So I invested in a centre pull yarn winder 

 the yarn now stays where you put it and pulls out from the middle no problems