Ship's Hawser And Telephone Poles

Day 90: I am six hats into a second dozen I'll be sending to the Joppa Flats Audubon Education Center, and I am grateful to the friends who have donated a variety of yarns for the project. That said, I don't ordinarily work with needles larger than size 5 and never with yarn heavier than worsted. My hands are small and I prefer to work with finer gauge materials. However, the last batch of yarn to come into my hands included a couple of skeins of bulky. I moved up to size 7 needles in one instance and to size 9 for the white/almond fleck shown here. I felt like I was knitting ship's hawser with a pair of telephone poles!