Molly Hat

I finished the Molly hat this week and it is a delectable pattern.  Fun, entertaining, and the end result looks great with the cable traveling all the way up through the crown.  I'd highly recommend the pattern.  It's a free pattern from Erin Ruth on Ravelry. 

There are two separate repeats to keep track of - the texture and the cable - so I found it helpful to take the time to write the entire pattern out to keep it easier to keep track.  I did several modifications on this:

• Cast on 92 stitches; Increase row to 121 stitches as states in pattern
• To keep track of the 3 row texture pattern and the 8 row cable pattern, I wrote out the entire pattern line for line. I ended up do 6 cable repeats before starting the decrease section.
• I moved the cable in the pattern over - 24 stitches from where originally indicated in order to have the start point not quite as noticeable. (I had do to a little fiddling on the decreases but was easily able to maintain the texture pattern.)

Yarn is Dream in Color's Special Cashmere Edition worsted in the colorway Lipstick Lava from The Loopy Ewe.  I ended up using 195 yards of a 210 yarn skein, so I am glad I didn't make the initial cable repeats longer before I started the decreases.