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IT CAUGHT MY EYE…

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So, I’m sitting at the Crochet Club Meeting, minding my own business the other night, knowing I had to leave early to get to the airport to pick up my MIL who was flying in from India via Australia, when I spied something dangling from the end of a shelf full of sock yarn.  Just hanging there.  Lots of interesting colors.  Had never seen it before.  Gotta get up and go see what this is.  A SOCK SCARF!  It’s so cute!  I’m showing it to the assembled crew, raving about this.

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Joan, a Crochet Club member who works at this shop stopped me with “I made that at least three years ago.  It’s been hanging there since then.”  No Way!  Not one of the crocheters had seen this scarf before.  It’s knit, but could easily be crocheted.  Joan had made it using up all her sock yarn, so it’s a rainbow of solid, heathered, and self patterning sock yarns.

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The heels are so cute.  They stick out at all angles, tiny peaks in the narrow stream of this thin scarf.  Hope you can see them on these pictures which Ronnie was kind enough to take for me.  Isn’t she a good photographer?

The pattern is something like ‘Head Over Heels’ but I could find no reference to it online.  Perhaps some of the knitters out there can help us out so we can credit the creative designer who came up with this simple but practical, whimsical pattern.

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Textured Hat Knitting Patterns

There are all sorts of knitting techniques you can use on hats, but some of my favorites are textured stitch patterns or cabled hats worked in a single color. Check out these great textured hat knitting patterns and find your next fall favorite. 

The K?pekapeka hat from The Practice of Fibre was the one that got me started thinking about textured hat knitting patterns. This one has a simple zig-zag pattern worked with purls. This hat uses centered double decreases for shaping to help keep the pattern going as you finish the top of the hat. It uses worked weight yarn. 

Little Totz Designs has this simple knit hat that uses worsted weight yarn and an allover knit-purl stitch pattern that’s easy to memorize. This one would be a great first hat in the round pattern if that’s something you haven’t tried before. 

The Fia Beanie from Honey and Grace Fiber Co is another simple stitch pattern that’s full of texture. It calls for bulky yarn so it should stitch up in no time in this great textured diamond design. 

Kalurah Hudson’s Cindersmoke hat is an interesting stitch design that uses double moss stitch and bands of slipped stitches throughout the pattern, which is where the decreases are worked, keeping the rest of the pattern as established. It uses bulky yarn and is sized for adults, and you can find it on Ravelry.

Benjamin Matthews has such pretty designs that often turn out to be simpler to knit than they look. The Snow Carved Beanie (find it on Ravelry) for example only uses knits, purls and slipped stitches, but it has a design that looks almost like cables. The pattern uses worsted weight yarn and has a foldover brim for extra warmth. 

While I wanted to keep the focus in this roundup on simple stitch patterns, basic cables are not that much more difficult than regular knitting, and the lattice pattern on this CrissCross Hat form the Purling Princess is so charming I couldn’t resist sharing. This hat comes in three sizes (baby, child and adult) and uses worsted weight yarn. It would be a great gift to knit if you’re thinking about that.