Second try
This yarn is fighting me. I’d turned it into a cowl once before, but didn’t like where it was going so ripped it all back. Now I’m thinking hat, and I keep having grand plans, and it keeps wanting to just hang out and do it’s own thing.
Someone tell me that I can just make a very very very boring hat (like 1 by 3 ribbing and that’s it) and let the yarn do what it wants to do. That’s allowed, right?
For folks asking, it is Stormy Day by Lemonade Shop. Fair warning though, it’s an opinionated yarn and you may have to let the yarn be more in control than usual with this one!
Rainbows are in so a hat boring to knit can be an exercise in patience but also a great charity knit.
I believe had the same colorway on a different base, and yeah, this is basically what it does. I used it to knit entirely plain socks — just a little 1×1 ribbing, then stockinette all the way to the toes (this was on a circular sock machine, so not quite as monotonous as handknit). They were a gift and my friend adored them. Go full boring, this yarn tolerates no complexities.
Please, please tell me what yarn this is. It looks perfect for a simple little baby or toddler sweater. I have a 1 year old granddaughter and there’s a little grandson on the way. I’m sure this would look wonderful on either one of them… Please share so I can run right out and get some!
It’s from The Lemonade Shop on etsy, I’d bet. It looks like Stormy Day. I have socks from that colorway and a hat out of Bad Day and love them all. 🙂
Up above she says it is Stormy Day by Lemonade Shop
Absolutely. Crazy Yarn (Freak Like Me colorway) is how I ended up with my first truly plain pair of socks. : )
The yarn is doing the work in the knitting. I like the yarn and the slanting line of color you are achieving. What is going to happen at the top of the hat where the decreases usually are. Will the color pattern shift into something interesting or be blobs of color ? That part may be less boring to figure out.
I have this exact yarn (though in sparkle) and I just let it do it’s thing and got a delightful swirl! There are pics on my blog about what I did to keep the swirl (spoiler, I went up a needle size after the ribbing)
I do like what it’s doing with the colors there – each set of three looking so intentionally gradient. A different stitch count would change that, of course. Perhaps a long cowl, or a narrow neck cowl… Or mitts? It would definitely look different in mitts – they’re more like socks than a hat. Or perhaps simply a hat/cowl for a smaller person?
As for boring rib… It would look great – but would it bore you to tears such that you’d never finish? If not, then go for it! 🙂
I just love it. 🙂
Personally as a fellow person who shudders at miles of ribbing or plain stockinette, my first thought would be to knit this on a bias. Whether this is achieved by the simplest way possible or through the magic of slip stitching or the simplest of lace is up to you. But by putting on a bias, you’d be encouraging the yarn to do what it already wants to do, spiral in circles around its center like a ballerina piroutete. Just a thought.