Are there buy buttons on the side of the page? If so, you've caught this pattern on one of the handful of days every year when it's available! If not, read on for details of where it went and what to do if you want to be notified the next time it's available.

A few years ago I got overwhelmed by my back catalog, retired most of my earlier work, and launched Tiny Nonsense. That gave me space to make Cool New Stuff! But some people missed the earlier things, so I make many of the retired patterns available for a few days once or twice a year.

• If you see the buy buttons on this page, you’ve caught it on one of the days it’s available! You can buy it just like usual.

• If you don’t see the buy buttons on this page, then it’s not currently available. It will probably be available the week after Thanksgiving and for a few days in June or July.

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This is a companion to Henceforth (the mitts in the pictures at the bottom of this page).

Knitted leaves are magic. I’m sorry, I don’t make the rules. I don’t know why. I just know that it’s true. There’s something about them that is so lovely and so orderly and so deeply satisfying, and I cannot explain it. It doesn’t make any sense at all. But it does make me happy, so I’m not going to fight it.

And, just for bonus points, knitted leaves lend themselves to the most glorious hat crowns. As if they hadn’t already done enough for us! Apparently they’re just so cool they can’t help showing off.

The hat is written in six sizes (castons of 72, 80, 88, 96, 104, or 112 stitches), and you should feel free to adjust your gauge a bit to fine tune the fit of the hat. Just be sure that you’re working at a gauge that gives you a fabric you like with your chosen yarn!

I recommend working at something around 4, 4.5, 5, 5.5, or 6 stitches per inch, and I’ve included a table to help you figure out what gauge you’ll want to use for your size. With that range of sizes and gauges, the hat will fit a head between 15.75 and 24.75 inches (with lots of points in between).

This is perfect for you if:

• You share my helpless fondness for knitted leaves
• You are powerless to resist a tidy hat crown

It’s not for you if:

• You don’t like charts (the pattern uses charts)
• You hate swatching (you need to swatch to check your needle size)