Worst.Walmart.Ever.

On the very very west coast of B.C(not D.C. I said B.C)there is a teeny tiny town in the middle of Canadian nowhere called Powell River. It's absolutely the strangest town I've ever been in, it's like Salem's lot. If you aren't from there, it feels strange, like the air is different or something. It feels like you've walked into a horror movie, this is where we live. My husband grew up here so it seems normal to him, he claims he doesn't know what I'm talking about.
Anyways, since this town is in the middle of buttfuck nowhere and it takes an hour long ferry ride, then an hour long drive, followed by a second hour long ferry ride, followed by another hour long drive to get here, we don't get much in the way of consumer goods. I guess that's just too much boredom for any sane trucker/shipper. We have a Walmart and it is the Worst.Walmart.Ever. Since it's so far from the actual real world, all we get is the stuff from other walmarts that wasn't selling well. This afternoon I trekked to said Walmart out of pure never ending boredom combined with the feeling that I might actually be able to leave the house today. Of course I went right for the yarn, I heard they got some Bernat Softee Chunky, plus I needed some white yarn for a baby hat for a friend of a friend. THEY HAD THE SOFTEE CHUNKY! Not much but some.

Only 5 colours but better than nothing

I picked up some of the blue because the other colours bored me, and I found some white yarn as well. I started making a hat from Ravelry with the softee chunky, it's called the Stepping Texture Hat.

http://www.yarnspirations.com/patterns/stepping-texture-hat.html

Well I got about half way done and decided I hated it. The softee chunky is different now, it used to be a bit thinner, so with the new stuff, the hat didn't feel the way I wanted it to. So I pulled it apart, had a mini internal tantrum and then decided to write my own damn pattern.

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Crochet Chunky Men's Hat

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