While on a break from my current project I decided to make a hat.Seems simple enough, I love making hats. I learned something today from that decision, read the pattern first, do that before casting on.  I am not fond of doing ribbing, I mean on a scale of 1 to 10 it rates around a 2, necessary but tedious, Why am I telling you this, well the hat pattern I picked has a ribbing for the band. It  is  knit   lengthwise,  186 rows of ribbing doesn't sound like a lot until that is until you spend several hours knitting and discover you're only half way done. Plus you slip the first stitch of every row, so on top of knitting k2 p2 for several hours I also spent time redoing rows when I forgot to slip one and knitted it instead.
   Finally finished the band, then read the next set of directions, pick up x number of stitches, no problem. Wait for it, the next row said inc in every stitch across, really? By now I have too much time invested in this hat to quit. I will emerge victorious over this hat however someone will be getting a lovely hat for a present because by the time I'm done I will heartily sick of this hat.