This pink entrelac headband is called Grey Gardens, written by Kate Burge and Rachel Price for Knitty. The original pattern uses worsted weight yarn but I swapped it for a finer yarn.
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Meinhilde’s Make Nine 2019
Make Nine is an Instagram challenge for makers and making. I’ve been into knitting more than sewing and crocheting recently, so my Make Nine is all knitting. Here is my Make Nine list for 2019. From top to bottom, left to right: 1. Cascata by Filipa Carneiro This looks like a perfect top for summer. […]
DIY: Knit Winter Sunrise Hat and Free Pattern by Elinor Brown
The Winter Sunrise Hat by Elinor Brown is perfect for winter. The pattern starts with a provisional cast on. Following the chart, I knit the hat up to the top. The knit decreases form their own lovely colourwork pattern ridges. Once the stranded knitting and decreases are done, the provisional stitches are picked up and […]
DIY: Knit Diamond Hat and Free Pattern by Anne Mizoguchi
The Diamond Hat is a free pattern by Anne Mizoguchi, one of a series of colourwork hats. I used three colours of Rooster Almerino DK, a soft alpaca-merino blend yarn. I used Ocean as the main colour, and Gooseberry and Smoothie as the contrast colours. Since I have a loose gauge, I used 3.0 circular […]
DIY: Knit Herringbone Hat and Free Pattern by Anne Mizoguchi
The Herringbone Hat is part of a series of three free stranded colourwork hat patterns by Anne Mizoguchi. To knit the hat, I used Rowan Superfine Merino DK in the Aubergine and Sky colourways. This allowed for good practice in choosing colours for colour dominance. Since I am still relatively new to stranded knitting, I […]