Do you have a lot of left over yarn? I do and I’m constantly weighing these little balls to see if I have enough of a certain color to make something. I mostly have left overs of the Knit Picks Palette line which is fingering weight 100% wool yarn. Sometimes I want to design a pattern that has lots of colors in it so I’ll pull from my collection of scraps. I have noticed in general that people are more likely to make my patterns if there’s just a few colors involved. However, I design for my own knitting pleasure and I can’t resist complex colorwork.

This photo shows how the Sprung Hat came about. The bottom swatch was make to figure out how the flowers would look. Then I got to work on the crown. (I normally don’t show my swatches. I do them quick and dirty with no concern about presentation!) I never intended to use pink in this hat but I was running out of orange and wanted to save it for the actual construction of the hat. Pink yarns would be a great substitute for the flower colors, if that is what you have. There are 9 colors here: 3 light back-ground colors, 3 greens for the leaves, and 3 flower colors. Of course the leaves don’t have to be green!

Here’s the FREE PATTERN for you to enjoy!