The inadvertent hat
So this hat wasn’t supposed to be a thing. The plan I had originally was ‘I want to write every single thing I have to say about pompoms down in one place and be done with it.’ But then it turned out that, in order to put something on ravelry, it sort of has to be a proper pattern (you know, one that actually results in a knitted or crocheted thing at the end), and pompoms don’t count.
So I figured I’d just do a plain as can be hat…you know, cast on…knit for a while…decrease for a while…done and call it good.
But then…then that sounded boring as all get out to actually knit. And I figured if I was going to go wild with pompoms (and we’ll be talking about those all week long, so brace yourselves), that I might as well do something suitably wild with the hat. And I’d long wanted a way to include random speckles of color (you know…without having unsuitably long floats on the back side of my work).
So I figured I’d put the two together and run with it. Because I’m pretty sure that a randomly speckled hat is the prefect canvas for a whole whack pile of pompoms. So…that’s what’s coming next!
And yeah yeah, don’t worry. If you’re looking at this thinking ‘but…but…I want my knitting to be tidy and orderly and the whole point is that it’s not random,’ don’t fret, there will be hideously tidy and orderly things coming up down the road. I promise!
I LOVE RANDOM! Can’t wait to learn more…what did you do with the pink yarn with loops in it?
That’s what the pink speckles are!
I love it! The colors, the execution of the idea, your enthusiasm for Pom poms. Can’t wait!
“hideously tidy and orderly…”
Snort
Doesn’t sound like MY life! (Not that I wouldn’t like it to be, but….)
I love the random pink stitches! They are so cheerful. Looking forward to the rest of the hat adventure.
I love the colors! Hoping this will be an available pattern
Pretty much everything I ever knit turns into a pattern! This is slated to be the next one out (likely early April)!
Is the bottom k1p1 ribbing?
The knits are twisted, but otherwise yes.