Inklings
So normally I’m a sucker for texture. Give me cables. Give me lace. Give me a stitch pattern that swoops this way and that and does no end of interesting things. But today? Today I sort of just want to let this brim stand there and steal the show.
Now I know this is uncharacteristic restraint. And don’t worry, I’m sure it won’t last. But somehow, this just works.
Well, ok, I did give in and add one little flourish. Because a bit of fancy business on a hat crown is just the natural order of things. But otherwise, this uncharacteristically understated.
And yet somehow, this is the piece of knitting that gets the most compliments whenever it goes out in public. Seriously, everyone loves it. It’s ‘strangers stop you in the grocery store and ask about your hat’ levels of good (that could be a Maine thing…we seem to be a very knitwear aware state).
If you’re as smitten as I am, the pattern is Inklings, it’s out on ravelry now, and you can take 10% off with the code UNDERSTATED through Friday!
Totally in love with this gorgeous pattern!
Thank you.
It’s a lovely hat!
OK. If you love that pattern (as I do, which is why I bought it) but you cannot STAND knitting with cotton yarn, what else would you suggest?
You should be able to use more or less whatever yarn you like. The pattern is written so you can get gauge with anything from fingering through aran weight, so pretty much any yarn you do enjoy working with is going to be fine.
Also, this yarn isn’t really like knitting with any other cotton yarn I’ve ever used. I /think/ (meaning I didn’t make it so I can’t know for sure), the cotton is just the tube at the center that holds it together. The bit on the outside (meaning the bit you touch as you work) is merino. So it basically feels like working with wool yarn.