Cables, Cables Everywhere

I mentioned that I've been a little into cables lately, right? Here's the hat I've been working on this week:

This is the basic cabled hat from the Cables Untangled book. After I finally overcame my own confusion about the pattern's transition from ribbing to cabling (which led to my expression of perpetual perplexity at last week's knitting get-together), the pattern's been a dream!