I have just published a new hat design!!! Really happy with this design at last, although it was a long time in the making...
I started out wanting to make another fairisle style hat with several colours but kept getting stuck with my colour choices... I wanted to use Shetland Sprindthrift again but with only online ordering available, some of the colours I chose didn't go together as well as I had hoped... There was a lot of re-jigging and eventually I gave up!
I decided to concentrate on getting the balance of the motifs right first, working with just two colours - and then re-introduce more colours. But once I had the motifs just right I really liked the look with just two colours. Really really liked it! So I wrote the pattern with just two colours and called it 'Finding Balance', as the name seemed to fit not only with stripping it back to the basics to 'find the balance' between the motifs but also trying to find a way to balance all the crap this year is throwing at me and everyone else... I'm sure crafting helps us all find a way to find balance.
I made my first sample using Drops Nord, a gorgeously soft and squishy alpaca/wool/polyamide mix. A 50g ball in each of two highly contrasting colours is enough to make two hats.
It's available on Ravelry here - Finding Balance Hat
It's available on Ravelry here - Finding Balance Hat
I have decided to support the Shetland MRI Scanner Appeal, so until the end of 2020, I will be donating 20% of my sales of the pattern to them.
