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Progress on the Princess Leiah Hat. I just need one more bun and then we’re off to assembly.

Knit with Berrocco Pleasure (66% angora, 29% merino wool, 5% nylon) on size 10.5 (hat) and 10 (buns) needles.

The yarn: I love, love, love. I don’t wear brown because it draws attention to my urticaria pigmentosa* spots all over me. But I think I’ll buy more of this yarn so I can make something to wear anyway. Only color left at yarn.com is brown. Maybe I’ll find it in another color somewhere else.

*Not being vain, just practical. I once had a brown shirt I loved that I wore often but so many people asked what the spots on my arms were. It got tiring after a while to answer them. Even my OB/GYN had to be convinced and sent me to a dermatologist for a second opinion. No one ever notices them unless I happen to be wearing brown. Isn’t that funny? Urticaria means hives and pigmentosa just means colored. The spots, which look like age spots only bigger and fewer in number, never go away but they appear when whatever I’m allergic to happens to be around trigger them.