In honor of my newly-improved computing capabilities, please allow me to present you with a pictorial review of how my ponytail hat looked straight off the needles a few weeks back (pre-felting).
See that happy (though regrettably make-up-free) face? I'm thinking the hat needs only a few minor tweeks to the design, maybe one more row of seed stitch before the stockinette and one less stitch in the button band, and it will be perfect!
Let's just turn a bit, though, shall we? Get a better view of that button band... Something's not looking quite right...
Ach!!! Look at that pulling!!! Not good!
Okay, moving on to the ponytail aspect...
Now this, I like. Cute!
Nice little opening for the ponytail there. Still like!
Yep. I'm on the right track here.
So, all in all I'm very happy with the progress I made at this point. I just need to make the button bands stronger without changing the overall size of the hat. While it felt right size-wise when I was wearing it, it looks barely big enough (for what I want) in these pictures.
Of course, changing the number of seed stitch rows and number of stitches might solve the size problem, while felting might solve the pulling. Hmmm...
