Swatchless Hat

We have a new store sample. Deidre dropped it off this morning and I couldn’t wait to share it with you.

This is the Musselburgh Hat. You can purchase the pattern on Ravelry.

The original swatchless hat pattern: a double-layered beanie with 4-point crown shaping. The multi-gauge pattern now includes 9 gauges, for yarn weights between light fingering and DK, and 6 sizes. 

Have a single skein of yarn you’re not sure what to do with? Need something simple to keep your hands busy during zoom meetings? Looking for a gift that everyone will appreciate? Want to cast on right away without any prep? Cast on today, no swatching required, and discover for yourself why so many knitters have fallen in love with Musselburgh. 

In what is essentially a three step project you’ll start with a centre-out cast-on and increase for the first crown; the next part is a beautifully meditative knit (perfect for those zoom calls!) of stockinette in the round; finally, you will finish off the hat by mirroring the initial shaping with decreases. This simple canvas is perfect for exploring your creativity through yarn choice, stripes or colour blocking. The hat is fully reversible, so working each half in a different colour or stripe sequence can turn it into two completely different hats in one.

We used two skeins of Fluorite Dyed in the Wool. I picked two skeins that were very different and Deidre knit every last inch of the skeins.

I’m afraid to take the hat home because I think Beth will want it. And then she is going to want Deirdre to knit her more in different colours.

I pulled some skeins to show a few colour suggestions. Shades of Earth

Fluorite

Pop-Click

Dark Side

Big Sky

Miss Me

Katie and Colleen came in with some Show and Tell.

This is their first attempt at Brioche. They both knit the Plumped Up Cowl and Katie knit the Plumped Up Harlow. They said that it was a learning curve (with some bad language) but once they got the hang of it they enjoyed knitting brioche. Congratulations ladies. These look awesome!!