Finished!

Saxony, pattern by Deborah Tomasello. Knit in KnitPicks Palette: clover, jay, semolina, custard and turmeric; less than half a skein of each. Size #5 circular needles. (Pattern calls for #3, but I began knitting tightly, so went up two sizes. The tightness loosened up as I went along. Next pattern I'm using the size needles called for.)

Top: there are two alternate charts for the top. This is the one pictured for the pattern. The other continues the side motifs.

Inside: look! My floats are even! (Well, mostly. The ones that aren't are on the other side . . . )

I love this pattern. And I love the fact that it was only $2 and the yarn cost me nothing, since I already had it.

Of course, it cost something when I bought it, but if I didn't buy it specifically for this pattern, right now, it's no cost.

(This is only one of the reasons I am not an accountant.)

Also, there is a pattern for mittens and fingerless gloves, and socks (which I am ignoring for now. Mittens are on my list of things to learn this summer. Socks are not. Yet.).

Now I am going out on the porch to eat cherries (bought with the money I did not spend on yarn for this hat) and cast on something else, instead of weeding, which I ought to do. However, I did that yesterday, as well as some much-needed yard cleanup where I'd been planting things and throwing the old pots in a heap under the window . . . and everything below my neck is protesting loudly at the very thought of doing anything that involves more than a chair and a cold bottle of water.

Comments

[Linda]

I am very impressed. If you coukd o ths I think socks and mittens are going to be a breeze. I also cannot be an accountant:) Okay, not then but a stash buster.

[Kai]

That hat is GORGEOUS! Love the colors & pattern! And CHERRIES!!! I generally indulge myself each early summer and buy some but I would have busted the BANK this year when I saw the prices. OMG! I just could NOT justify getting any. Sigh. However, when it's ripe fig time, I swear I care NOT a - well - FIG what they'll cost. I WILL buy some! Eat a cherry (or 10) for ME, okay? LOVE YOU!