Hat!

[labellementeuse]

I totally want some love for my first fair isle!





Pattern is Flora, which is an excellent pattern that I screwed up in the following way: I did not Trust the Pattern. I looked at the cast on (120st) and the needle size (4.5mm) and thought "that is ridiculous, my head is 80st wide in DK on 3.75mm" and proceeded to cast on 90st on 3.5mm and do three pattern repeats. Oh, silly fair-isle virgin! The only other colourwork I've done is a little intarsia and noting anyone ever had to wear. So, anyway, the result is that the hat will be going to a small child of my acquaintance instead of on my own head, and I will soon be knitting myself a new one (with a 90st cast on increasing to 120st at the end of the brim.) But! I am still totally proud of this! It's really pretty and warm and gorgeous.

Comments

[iamshadow]

Gorgeous!

I'm kind of frightened by patterns that involve more than one colour. I think I'll tackle that next year. This year, I'm popping my cabling and circular knitting cherries. :)

[labellementeuse]

I've just started into colourwork myself - I've done a little striping (which was, for the record, really really easy and doesn't really count as colourwork IMO, so if you ever feel you need colour in your knitting go for that) and I just knitted a little intarsia R2D2 then this! I have to say that it's nowhere near as much of a pain in the ass as I thought it was going to be. This was super-easy because it's just two colours - and I have to say I found this, on balance, a lot easier than learning to cable. A LOT. :P