My first freestyle self-designed hat!
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untonugganI was playing around with some beautiful yarn the other day and I self-designed a hat for my mom's friend. (My mom was worried she wouldn't have time to knit it before Christmas as she's knitting an epic scarf for my brother.) I started with the inspiration of the "daisy chain stitch," which is featured in Vogue Knitting's Stitchionary (available from my local library). I'm sure it's in Barbara Walker as well, if only I could get my hands on one of her stitch dictionaries.
Anyway, my mom's friend (who I've known since I was 8, as I'm friend's with her daughter) is an avid gardener. I've dubbed the hat "Wild Growth hat", because it takes its inspiration from that. It features seed stitch; daisy chain stitch; some cabling symbolizing tree limbs; more seed stitch at the top of the tree limbs symbolizing leaves/new seeds; various other fancy bits and bobs. The decreases at the top are meant to symbolize the sun.
What I particularly liked is that I went in with an idea of gauge and the kind of pattern I wanted, but I basically decided, "I feel like doing fancy garter stitch here," or "that's enough seed stitch, I'm sick of it." And it turned out really well. I hadn't planned on doing cables, and they're not "even" throughout the hat...but it is a Wild Growth hat after all!
For anyone who's interested, the yarn is Fiberphile Superwash Merino in "True Heart" (but I think the maker is sold out of the color, so finding it could be hard). It's gorgeous and I love the texture of the color.
Edit: Also, I uploaded some photos of another hat I finished recently. It's based on a pattern from a book my mom got. More photos on my Flickr site (click the photo for more).
Anyway, my mom's friend (who I've known since I was 8, as I'm friend's with her daughter) is an avid gardener. I've dubbed the hat "Wild Growth hat", because it takes its inspiration from that. It features seed stitch; daisy chain stitch; some cabling symbolizing tree limbs; more seed stitch at the top of the tree limbs symbolizing leaves/new seeds; various other fancy bits and bobs. The decreases at the top are meant to symbolize the sun.
What I particularly liked is that I went in with an idea of gauge and the kind of pattern I wanted, but I basically decided, "I feel like doing fancy garter stitch here," or "that's enough seed stitch, I'm sick of it." And it turned out really well. I hadn't planned on doing cables, and they're not "even" throughout the hat...but it is a Wild Growth hat after all!
For anyone who's interested, the yarn is Fiberphile Superwash Merino in "True Heart" (but I think the maker is sold out of the color, so finding it could be hard). It's gorgeous and I love the texture of the color.
Edit: Also, I uploaded some photos of another hat I finished recently. It's based on a pattern from a book my mom got. More photos on my Flickr site (click the photo for more).
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