February 14, 2009
Skyline Hat
I've been intrigued by double knitting for a while now. It's a process where you knit with two colors to make a doubled, reversible pattern. The same technique can also be used for doing things like knitting two socks at one time.
About two years ago, my friend Eric was going around town wearing a grubby old hat with a huge moth hole right in the front of it and I said that I would knit him a new hat. Of course, his wife replaced his hat well before I got around to knitting one. I decided that fulfilling my promise of hat creation could be a good opportunity to also learn this new technique, so I went on Ravelry and found this excellent hat pattern, uncreatively but descriptively called double knit earflap hat.
This is an excellent, excellent pattern. The shape is great. It looks good on a kid or a grown up. It feels wonderful on your head. I am definitely going to be using this one again. It was $5 very well spent.
The designer is called Giftable Designs.
Posted by Tracy Rolling at February 14, 2009 01:19 PMI added my favorite local yarn store to your map but misspelled their name. Ahhhhrgh! Please fix it? Weaving only has one A. Their website: http://www.villagespinweave.com/
Great skyline hat. Love the yellow scarf too.
Thank you! Misty
cute hat. your widget is interesting.
Posted by: Theresa at March 1, 2009 06:14 PMThanks for the knitting shops. I'll look for the typo and fix it.
Posted by: Tracy at March 6, 2009 08:21 AMI've been curious about how double knitting works too. Thanks for the info. I may just try this pattern. It looks great!
Posted by: maryeb at March 9, 2009 02:23 PMGreat way to show of your knitting skills!
Posted by: Jock Lover at January 4, 2010 11:41 PM