Brioche Wins

For over two weeks I have attempted to knit Brioche stitch and I have finally decided that my dyslexic brain simply cannot master making stitches with absolutely no errors. Of course I made it difficult for myself in trying to knit a Brioche Cap from the book "Weekend Knits" that uses two colors which alternate in the brioche. The colors I was working with were golden yellow and black, my son's school colors. I wanted to make him this cool hat for nordic skiing. Stripey and warm. Alas! it was not meant to be. I gave it my all.

I have another hat in mind that will have the important M on the front in yellow in a black background. The background will be like a hill that will go down gradually over the ears until the hat is all yellow in the back. The yellow "sky" will have black "snow flakes" coming down around the crown of the head. May have some kind of "star" on top of cap. They do allot of night skiing and the colors match their uniforms. Could even make white snow with a layer over the black hill. I don't know intarsia but this project may call for it.

I still hate it that a stitch got the better of me. I've always felt that patient determination could win the day. Not in this case. It's not like this is the only thing I've got going.