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    Hi! I'm Traci. I'm a Registered Nurse who loves quilting, knitting, cross stitch, and the great outdoors. In my pre-scrubs life, I owned Real Photography, and you can still see my old wedding and portrait photography site here .

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Baa-ble hat pattern take two

When you love a knit as much as this one, you pretty much immediately have to make a second!  I wanted to see how this blue would look as the sky, and I love it!  My only disappointment in my second baa-ble is that I made an actually babble this time (the world’s most expensive pompom when it’s made out of Plucky yarn!) and for whatever reason, as a pompom with mainly the cut ends showing, the pompom looks much greener than the yarn did on the hat and so I had to keep it off the hat!

Isn’t it crazy that the exact same yarn looks green in a pompom but blue knit up?!