This is my second Odessa hat. I knit it for my grandmother who never even took it out of the bag. I mentioned this to my dad a year later when I found it at the bottom of a drawer in the original bag and he got all upset and told me that she can't even go outside what use will she have for a hat? Yeah. I'm the asshole for giving someone a handknit gift.

These photos were taken in January of 2008, lest you think it's anachronistic that I'm photographing something knit in 2006 with a gadget that didn't hit the market until 2007. It's my dad's, by the way. I would never.

Pattern Odessa by Grumperina
Yarn Mystery worsted from a Brooklyn Yarn Store
Needles Size 6 bamboo DPNs.
Other This item uses pink beads that I don't know why I have them or where I got them.

In the background: a painting my dad did in the 70s.