Menokreatikkul; Saturday Stitches

I was a bit finger antsy over the past couple of weeks. Summer sports on the viewer. Cricket (the Guardian live blog is my choice for following that): Tour de France (ITVx when I have signal, the official website if not): Wimbledon!!! Full coverage on the Beeb, limited only by how many screens I can split (again, according to signal) on the Chromebook and whether there's enough bandwidth to run the phone as well... I might be going a bit cross-eyed! 

All very entertaining, but the fingers do need to be kept busy. I do puzzles of various forms, the colouring app... but of course, one of the best things to do when watching too much sport (yet it's never enough), is to crochet. I had some leftover yarn from the Falling Leaves scarf, but not a lot. Enough for a beanie? Give it a try... as it turned out, there was more than enough. I could have made it more of a sloppy and in the same pattern as the scarf, but decided I liked the skullcap version and worked a very simple flow from the magic circle start of one round each of single (dc), half-double (htc), double (tc), treble (dtc), quad (ttc), and then repeating in reverse order, then completing the rim with ten rows of single (dc)... those brackets being the UK terms. Then there was sufficient yarn (with only about a metre left at the very end) to do the same stitch pattern for a pair of wristlets. Well happy!