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Three hats and a colourwork cowl

I wrote about having enough left over yarn to knit a hat last week. I did, and I did. It came out a little too big, and, although I loved knitting with the mohair, and see more fuzz in my future, I wish I'd chosen the pink, rather than the grey. I can't see me wearing this, so it's into the donate pile. I like it with the purl side out best:

 Although it works with the knit side out too.

I also knit a hat deliberately for charity out of jewel tones of LOSY. The thing is, the mini balls of yarn I use for my blanket are 10 to 40 grams. Each blanket square uses 3 - 5 grams, so each row of blanket gives 50 to 100 grams of leftovers
 Even if I reuse some of the colours later, there is still a frightening amount of leftovers, and apparently I'm severely afraid of leftovers. So, when I wanted something simple to knit on Tuesday night, I thought a charity hat was the go. The thing about these plain hats, is I can cast them on, do one decent nights knitting, and finish them on my lunch break the next day. I mean, I shouldn't, my hands are pretty tired right now, but it's very tempting to just crank out hats. I wonder if I could do 30 in a month. Bad idea. 
Then I decided to knit a cowl for camping - although we're not going camping until late October, when it probably won't be that cold. The hat and mitts I wear camping are Kate Davies' Goats of Inversaid, so I whipped up a matching cowl. I thought that would be the last of my Buachaille yarn, but there should be enough left over for matching mittens.
I thought  that the cowl (charmingly modelled here by Leon) would take longer than it did, and on Friday evening I found myself without anything on the needles, so I cast on another LOSY hat. I like the way the colours play on this one more, and it was a really fun knit. I finished that on Saturday night, which means that in 6 days I knit three hats and a colourwork cowl. Now to slow down a bit, and knit something a little more complicated.
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