Here is an excellent season topper which can be worn multiple ways and designed to evoke the autumn hills. Imagined autumn hills with birch stands waxing brilliant in the sunshine, plus lots of brown for trunks and plenty of golds and rusts for the turning leaves.

I decided to design it like an impressionistic painting with short rows and drop-stitches emulating trunks and branches and those rolling hills. Raised garter stitches anchors the view, and the addition of seed stitch provides the leafy surface.

The caplet is knit from the bottom up and worked flat until finishing, with decreases narrowing the piece at approximately mid-arm to the neckline. It is then joined at the upper shoulder but remains open from the the upper elbow down. It is then picked up and knit around the neck opening with circular needles and a picot edging added. A lace saw-tooth edging is attached to the bottom during finishing.