FO: Surprise! A hat.

This project knit up so quickly that I didn't even have a chance to blog about it in progress!

Pattern: My Herringbone Hat
Yarn: my handspun Garden lavendar!

Needles: US 10s and US7s (10s for brim and 7s for the top)

Mods: oh, a handful.  I used the pattern for the basic idea and the stitch pattern. For the top of the hat I just picked up however many made sense and then did a spiral decrease at the top. 

Part of what was so fun about this project was that it was my first time going end to end on a project (minus the fiber prep part - this came to me as combed top already).

It started as an idea in my head: oo! I should make yarn that looks like a lavender plant,

 

to this dyed roving,

to these singles,

to this yarn,

to this hat.

I'm looking forward to doing lots more of this end-to-end business.

Milo crashed the photo shoot:

But only because he had something important to tell me about orange squeaky toys.