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Crosby's Hat Box, Rikke Hat, Sarah Young, Wurm by Noreen. This entry was posted in Knitting and tagged antelope hat, Cascade 200 Effects, Katharina Nopp, Kelly McClure, Mrs. Here’s a few more samples, including views of the crown decreases. This is also not the first time I’ve knit Antelope Hat. And that yarn-over round becomes the picot brim. When you’ve completed the maneuver, the cast-on is knitted into the working round. It’s awkward at first, but hands catch on pretty quick. Next you knit together each live stitch in the round with one of the cast-on stitches. Twizzlefoot by Mountain Colors 2699 Pay in 4 interest-free installments for orders over 50. You knit a few rounds, do a round with yarn over, knit 2 together, and knit a few rounds more. The fold-back picot brim adds a nice touch. But I know folks who think the slouchier the better when it comes to hats. Some knitters decrease the number of eyelet rows in Antelope. Mine is knit in Cascade 220’s freshly hatched Effects, a new superwash.

MOUNTAIN COLORS TWIZZLE YARN SALE FREE

Kelly McClure’s Antelope Slouch Hat is another worthy entry in the free hat patterns on Ravelry. Here’s a few other versions I’ve knit: here and here. I call my hat Creamsicle Wurm.Ī bit unruly, but in a interesting way. We can cut good yarn some slack on the silly name scale. Crosby.” I have no clue about that yarn name, but it’s great yarn. I knit mine (this time) in sportweight “Hat Box by Mrs. Wurm calls for a sportweight, though it’s quite forgiving if you use other weight yarn. The pattern is available in German, Finnish, French, Italian and English. This next one is another very popular Rav freebie: Wurm by Katharina Nopp.12,971 Ravelers can’t be wrong. 8,143 knitters have completed the hat and posted it on their project page. Rikke sits lightly on the head and several knitters have commented that it doesn’t give its wearer a case of hat-hair. As always, no pointiness is what I favor and this crown decrease delivers. Sease says it’s a suitable substitute for the German Twisted. I ended up using a wonderfully easy cast-on from page 41 of Cap Sease’s excellent 2014 book, “Cast On, Bind Off: 211 Ways to Begin and End Your Knitting.” She calls it Thumb Cast On and writes that it’s also called the Twisted Right Finger Half-hitch Cast On. The pattern calls for using a German Twisted Cast-on and refers the knitter to YouTube for the “how to” on that. It must be a bear’s tooth after the bear’s been been munching on some sun-ripened protein. Young designed it for DK, but I knit mine in Mountain Colors Twizzle, a fairly lightweight worsted. This is Rikke Hat, by Sarah Young of Happy Knits. And, if you knew me better you’d know that I don’t really even wear hats very often. Photos are credited where applicable all uncredited photos are taken by me.I know. Unless otherwise disclosed, I have purchased all products myself and received no compensation for reviews or opinions. All opinions and photos are my own.Īll content on The Corner of Knit and Tea is my own.

I received no other compensation for this review. Next time I might lean towards creating a drapey shawl or wrap the colors are just too gorgeous to leave them in my shoes!Ī special than k you to Stitchcraft Marketing and the folks at Mountain Colors who sent me a skein of Twizzlefoot (retail: $28.00) for free. I really enjoyed working with this yarn and I would definitely use it again. I chose a simple pattern, the London B.Ridge Socks by Mina Philipp, in order to let the yarn shine through. Mountain Colors is a genius with the dyepots – I couldn’t stop staring at these socks as I knit them. That said, the silk content in the yarn also makes for a lovely sock and silk will keep you warm on nippy days and cool on warmer days.ĭespite my trouble capturing it just right in photographs, the color of this yarn is stunning. I do think this skein would have made a stunning shawlette, with the silk adding a bit of drape. It was soft, squishy and I knew it was going to make some really silky socks. I found this colorway impossible to photograph – I love all the rich tones but I found that they either appear too dark, or a bit blown out when I try and add more light. I selected the colorway Snapdragon, which is a deep pink skein with pops of wonderful autumn colors – oranges, reds, and browns. The Twizzlefoot base has one strand that takes the dye differently than the other strands, creating a barberpole, or twizzle, look to the yarn. It comes in 450yd/100g skeins which is plenty to make a pair of cushy socks. Twizzlefoot Sock Yarn is 53% Superwash Merino Wool, 17% Domestic Wool, 17% Silk, and 13% Nylon. Mountain Colors offers gorgeous colorways, but mohair tends to make me itch, so I’ve been hesitant to try their Bearfoot base despite its rave reviews. When Mountain Colors offered me a chance to try their Twizzlefoot Sock Yarn I was very interested in trying some.

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