Alpaca Hat

Okay, my brother-in-law lives in California, I know, I know, but they do burn through a couple of cords of wood in the winter, and somebody's gotta do the splitting and stacking, right? That was my thought process, at any rate.

This is Heirloom alpaca, I knit the ribbing on painfully small needles and twisted the stitches to give it a little extra oomph. Decided the stripes as I went along. Always at least two rows so that I could use Meg Swansen's jogless stripe technique. (Described here by Judy Gibson, along with other techniques for accomplishing the same thing.)