Simple and effective. Another potentially masculine, unisex design (despite the pattern picture). Not however, particularly masculine in the colour combination I chose!

OK, I love to buy mad variegated yarn and this citrus mix is right up there. Fun, playful and loud. I’m hopping this pattern plays well with the relatively short variegation. Here’s to a cheerful, “look at me!” hat.

The yarn I used for this is lovely and soft but tends to shed little bits of fuzz. It’s also a little bit splitty without careful attention to the knitting.

The pattern for this, whilst simple, requires attention to detail especially to where the round starts and row counts (each row is repeated twice). There may have been some frogging due to forgetting to finish the round in the right place more than a few times.

The first ball of yarn is really random. The second ball decided to do quavery spirals of colour. Only a very small amount of yarn left over….

This has ended up Large after blocking. It was only part way through that I realised that the pattern was written for sport weight yarn not DK. Oh well! It will fit someone. It’s not ridiculously large.

Epilogue
Turns out it really was ridiculously large and a misfit of a hat. The colour screamed playful child, the sizing was looking for a basketball sized head.

Frogged and yarn reclaimed Saturday 30th May 2020.