what the hell is my problem? i mean...ok, i'm ok....but what the hell is my problem!! i have lost my ability to visualize or something. first, i didn't spin enough yarn. spent the last two days re-mixing up fibers and spinning more yarn. matched the first yarn perfectly. no sweat. i finished knitting and when i put on the hat....it almost slid down to my chin! yeah...hugemondo. gigantopithacus hatticus. i thought they were extinct. at least in my life. but no. my "educated guess" about the stitches-per-inch of this whacked thick and thin yarn was, well.....less than educated i guess. ok ok! it was just a plain old guess. well hell. now we see where that gets us. so i'm ripping it all out. and starting over. when it was on my head i pinched the extra bulk to see how many stitches too big it was......6 stitches! on #13's......

the irony here....unfortunately my life seems to be plagued with irony....is that i actually had the right amount of yarn in the first place, had i knit this the right size. so the second skein i spun was for naught!