Apple for the Teacher

Here's another project I made from Knitted Baskets by Nola Heibreder and Linda Pietz. 

Pattern: Apple for the Teacher, in the book Knitted Baskets

Yarn: Red Heart Super Saver 

The book says the finished size is  four inches wide and four inches high, so my gauge must have been way off on this one, although I can't imagine how I could have knitted it much tighter. I don't do gauge swatches on little projects like this and I'd just made another basket with two strands of worsted weight, so I used the same set of needles.