this hat has always made me feel, alternately, like audrey hepburn or arlo guthrie. and it isn't the hat's looks themselves that cut that wide a swath. suffice it to say i had an arlo day today. here's the hat.
and here's the bindoff. i thought a kitchner stitch or graft would be unseemly -- and likely not to be as invisible as it "ought". rather than find out the hard way, i went with the three-needle bindoff and am satisfied with it.