Hand dyed using Jacquard acid dyes in Sage and Periwinkle, and 3 packets of grape koolaid.

I cast on 96 sts to make it bigger. In the first decrease round I (k10, k2tog) 8 times. to decrease down to 88 sts as called for in the pattern.

I used size 8 circular all the way until the last decrease rounds when I switched to sz 7 dpns.