Hi everyone! It's getting chilly here in Northern Colorado and I'm finding the need for some hats very quickly. So I went to the local yarn store, picked up some cirrus on sale. Looks like this. It's a blend of mohair nylon and super fine marino. And I got two colors and using a 5.5 millimeter needle, some getting about three and has to just per inch. So I should get some hats pretty darn quickly. Now I got two colors because I thought I would do some color work, but I didn't have a plan in mind per se. So I'm looking through ravory and I stumble upon these lovely mittens by Pia Cammaborn called Roses Are Red. And they have this cuff that's a different color inside than outside. And I love that touch. So I thought I'm going to do that with this with my hat. This will be the inside of the cuff, a little bright poking out and then this will be the body, this darker shade. And then I'll add a little few color details on the outside of the body of the hat. Okay? So because of that plan, I'm like, okay, I need to do a provisional cast on and I've never cast on with mohair before. Now, or did a provisional cast on with mohair and my preferred provisional cast on method is to do it over the cord of a second needle set. So that I'm already to go when I fold the two ends together and get ready to knit them together. My needles are already there. I don't have to worry about picking up stitches. And I thought that was particularly important with mohair because it's, you know, fuzzy. It's hard to see those stitches really well. So I started with this type of cast on and I did it a couple of times and the problem I was having was I couldn't tell if my stitches were twisted. It was crazy. So when I was trying to join in the round, yeah, I just didn't have the confidence to do in the in the join, you know, like, oh, I just know I'm twisting this. This is going to be horrible and then ripping out is never finally with mohair. So I said fine. After a couple attempts, no, not going to do that. I'm going to go ahead and do my second favorite was a crochet provisional cast on and you can see it's a little bulky, but I was able to join in the round and, you know, I'm just going to knit through, do some stitches and then I'll do about two inches and then I'll join in the other color and work two more inches and then join them together and we'll see how that works out. More on that in the body of the post along with links to those lovely mittens by Pia Cammaborn that I referenced and links to the the provisional cast on so I'm talking about. Okay, thanks so much. Bye.