Lifeboat required

We are just about holding our heads above water.

Here is the back field lake:



Yesterday was interesting, to say the very least. 'Im indoors abandoned ship at 11.30. The offspring's school closed at noon. Everyone took a very long time to get home but, thankfully, all were in the right place by tea time.

Not much knitting, but Michael-at-work has just become a grandfather for the first time so I made this little hat as a gift:



Pattern available here. It's not clear if it's supposed to be knitted in the round but if you know anything about me at all you will know that I do not do sewing. If it can be knitted in one piece, it will be knitted in one piece. The picture with the pattern is so small that I couldn't decide if the hat was garter stitch based or what. I tried garter stitch first. It looked dreadful. That caused the appearance of :



The Frog.

I tried again with a stocking stitch base - much easier anyway because knitting in the round means it's just all knit.

The last two rounds are K2tog. In fact, I did three rounds of same:



I think it will fit her at some stage, if not right now.