This is a quick drive-by blogging of a hat I recently made for Peto!
The pattern is thorpe (PDF!), and I used it as kind of a stashbuster to get rid of a bunch of different gray yarns. I think the hat lends itself nicely to that... I was generally holding two worsted/aran weight yarns together and knit on US10s, so I actually made the smallest size to make up for the difference in gauge. It took me a while to figure that one out - I knit the thing three times in the end, but he's pleased with the final result!
On the top there we have some cascade 220 combined with some alpaca from a farm in Oregon (beautiful stuff - I lost the ball band eons ago), then two strands of cascade 220 for a bit, then cascade 220 (again) with some jo sharp silkroad aran tweed, and on the bottom there's the silkroad aran tweed and debbie bliss alpaca silk aran. Yeah, there's a few yarns involved in that hat.
But seriously, I loved this pattern so much I'll probably start one for myself next. I didn't put the braid ties on Peto's because, as he put it, "UGH NO! I'd look like Pollyanna!" I'll take the braids for mine, I guess...
See, that needs a nice big purple pom-pom on the top.
;-P
All kidding aside, I really like it.