Knitting Olympics Hat

Pattern: made up as I went along. Notes below.
Yarn: Sport weight alpaca from Pajolo Alpaca Farm. I purchased this yarn at Stitches Midwest, and the pink color was a lighter weight than the purple, and I doubled it to make up for it. I started with 200 yards of the purple, and 180 yards of the pink, according to the tags, but I had quite a bit left over.

Notes: I started with a cast on used often for lace knitting, what Montse Stanley calls a "Pinhole cast-on" on page 81, and what some people attribute to a woman whose last name begins with an O, and I don't remember right now (Emily Ocker?). I cast on five, then increased in each in the first row, and again on the second row. After that I divided the stitches onto five needles, and increased at each end of each needle every other row. I did this until I had 160 stitches.

At that point I did a Latvian braid. If you Google "latvian braid" you'll find how to do it.

I worked a few plain rounds, increasing to 171, since the colorwork pattern I picked was 19 stitches wide.

I then worked the pattern, carrying and weaving both colors, and leaving out partial leaves until it was deep enough, ending with two rows of purple, weaving the pink behind. The edge is another Latvian braid, and then a cast-off row.