After last year's gift exchange, I have a fairly good idea what kinds of gifts people gave. My recipient is outdoors a great deal (and lately, it's been quite cold here - we do get a bit of winter). With that in mind, and seeing these hats everywhere I go, I decided to do an earflap hat.
These don't look like they'd fit well, but they do. I should get a wig stand or something just for photographing hats!
I spent quite a bit of time making the pattern, made a dark-colored one, then tweaked the pattern a little more and made another from some interesting space-dyed yarn I had, using a space-dyed beige/gray as the secondary color and a space-dyed blue/green as the main color.
These are just Stitch World fair isle patterns, #75 and #80 from SW#3. Oddly enough, I don't think I've ever made anything with these two charts before! The yarn is a fingering weight, about a 2/12, and they're wool. The pattern is good but not finished - I have a couple of things I want to change still.
Hello Diana,
ReplyDeleteI think it's already very nice but perfection is everything. You can make a video for us?
Congratulations for your work.
Greetings from Italy.
Roberta
Hello Diana,
ReplyDeleteI have bought just about every video & book you have on machine knitting and I would like to have this Earflap Hat pattern. Is it available?