I think the phase has passed.  I’ve got three hats.  The family in question has three sprockets.  I think the numbers line up pretty well.  But before they go off to live with their new owners (after all, it is still awfully warm here), I wanted to show them to you.

If I can find some heads to wear them for pattern photos between now and when it gets cold enough that the kids need hats, I may do a pattern.  I have a suspicion that might not happen though.  I sort of like the idea of having these just be something I knit to knit them, not to write them up and do the whole pattern process.  Knitting just for its own sake.  I miss it.