I am slowly but surely drafting up the patterns that I am obsessively knitting. Someone needs to invent something that writes down your steps and charts your stitch patterns as you knit them. Can someone get on that asap please? Because I probably have 4 more designs in need of written patterns. And by “written pattern” I mean non-chicken-scrawled, speshul snowflake angel shorthand patterns.
However, I have completed one pattern, and it’s ready for it’s debut!
Full Tilt
This is bound to be your child’s favorite hat! The clever use of cables and lace has given a traditional knitted winter hat a fun and new slant. Knit in super soft, super warm 100% superwash merino, it’ll not only keep your little one comfy and warm, but will wash up wonderfully time after time.
(I’m having a hard time deciding which is cuter, the model or the hat. Okay, I admit it. The adorable model wins, but just by a smidge… :wink:)
If some of you are saying “hey, that looks kinda familiar,” you’d be right. I took a page from Hollywood’s book and decided to reinvent a pattern I had previously written and submitted to a design contest. I re-engineered it to use my Dirty Blonde line of yarn instead of a discontinued yarn. Also, I took the slant of the cables and lace in a different, more pleasing direction. And now it fits a wee head much better than the original did.
Pattern Stats:
Skill Set:
→Basic Chart Reading
→Basic Cable Knitting
→Basic Lace Knitting
→Ability or Willingness to Knit in the Round
Needles: US size 5 [3.75mm]
Yarn: Less than 1 skein [260 yds/238m; 4oz./100g.] Dizzy Blonde Studios: Dirty Blonde DK Superwash Merino; Martha colorway
Gauge: 24 sts/30 rows in 4 inches, stockinette
Finished Dimensions: 16.5” circumference; 6.5” fitted height
The pattern is selling at the introductory price of just $1.49, and you can find it on Ravelry, at Dizzy Blonde Studios, and eventually here in the sidebar.
BTW, the adorable model is my darling 3-yo step granddaughter, Little Miss M. Yes. She’s already 3.
2 Responses
Kitten
She can’t POSSIBLY be 3. You clearly bought that child because Marina is still a baby.
Cute hat.
Julie
There is absolutely no question that the model wins the cute contest. She is adorable! I love the hat – must make it for my own soon to be 3 y/o granddaughter. Off to buy the pattern now.