Forgive the scans, but I just couldn’t wait to get these images up quickly. You see, a short time ago, the talented Marian from Made Marian  offered pretty crocheted flower pins to her readership. She’d made them while on holiday, and their sweet colours encapsulatedher blog’s theme and signiture colours.

I put down my name in her comments, and Marian was so generous as to send one all the way over to me in a stylish envelope with pretty Irish stamps of Butterwort blooms (funny name for a pretty flower).

After delighting in Marian’s craftiness I wondered if I had anything that was just right to go with the pin. I couldn’t think of anything, so I set to making a hat inspired by her colours and design – which are doubly cool as her yellow and green, are both Irish and Aussie, colour combos.

I recently borrowed ‘Hip Knit Hats’ by Cathy Carron from the library, and choose this design for my first attempt at adapting a circular pattern, to straight knitting. It’s called Hilda in the book, but I call it the Rocket Hat.

(the Kermit the Frog pin is one ‘The Dozer’ gave me last year, which was also been waiting for the right home)

So, thanks to Marian and her pretty pin, you’ll never lose me in a crowd.