knitting a life

A few weeks ago an old friend was in town.  We had not seen each other for too long and we spent a lot of time reconnecting and talking about what had been happening in our lives over the intervening years.

One of the results of her visit was this hat:

knitted for her daughter, whose favorite color is orange.

I used one my favorite, all-purpose yarns, Lamb’s Pride,

and a pattern from a new book I found by Ann Budd, The Knitter’s Handy Book of Patterns.

Of course, I didn’t really follow the pattern, but that’s par for the course with me.

I just hope the hat fits.