Crowning myself queen

I've been working on those damn lacy trellis socks for so long that I needed a break. I wanted to work with a thicker yarn and bigger needles, and I was getting a hankering for some cables. Couple that with the fact that I've been borrowing my boyfriend's hat since I lost mine, and the fact that I had a skein of Malabrigo left over from making the Knotted Openwork Scarf, and you get...Coronet! Yep, I'm making the Coronet hat from Knitty. I started it the day before New Year's Eve after winding the yarn into a ball the night before. I've been plugging away at it and am already about half done. I somehow managed to pick the stitches up from the band wrong first time around so that I had it backwards. It's not that I didn't know the band needed to be inside out--I did that--I just picked the stitches up backwards somehow. Anyway, that got fixed quickly enough. The variegated yarn looks surprisingly nice in the cable. It stands out more than I imagined it would. When this is done, I'll have a hat to match my scarf, and it will be utterly cute. I'm excited! I have a very small head, but to my surprise, the medium on this seems to be the best fit for me. It's not big enough to slip down (I don't think), but it's also not so small that it needs to stretch--and therefore get thinner and less warm--to fit over my head. It should be very cozy, what with the double layer of the band and the cable.