If you love polka dots...

If you love polka dots, this is the hat for you! It was fun to knit with Viking of Norway's Nordlys yarn, only using one skein. Viking is headquartered in Norway, but there are quite a few places online to purchase this particular brand and colorway (Nordlys #964). The pattern is the "Maya Hat and Mittens Set" by Theresa Schabes, and can be found in the Fall 2016 Knitscene magazine (pp 69-70) as well as on Ravelry.

The hat is worked in the round from the bottom up and you split the skein into two separate balls, designating one as the main color and the other as the contrasting color. Because each ball begins with a different color in the sequence, you end up with really cool polka dots--it's fun to see them develop as you knit! This was an easy yarn to knit with and is composed of 75% superwash wool and 25% nylon. Theoretically, there is supposed to be enough yarn to make a pair of mittens, too, but I'm not so sure. You can see in the photo below that there is not much yarn left...I'm willing to give it a shot, though. :-)

I'd like to make this hat again using a different colorway, perhaps #911 which is all grays and charcoal. I noticed Amazon has this on sale for around $17.00 right now, and of course, Ravelry has some suggestions, too. Yay!