I finished this sweet little hat, probably one of the best things about winter: the handwork and the wearing of it. I've got some brewed cacao in the French press and thinking about starting my next sweater. My last two sweaters didn't have patterns. I just measured myself and went for it. I dunno, something about all the instructions and rules and counting was making me crazy and so I went off on my own and now have two sweaters that I love (the others were given away). I'm sure there's a lesson in there somewhere about just following my own intuition now and then.