chic chicky chapeau
The recipient of this baby hat isn’t born yet, so I didn’t have a model to show it off to best advantage. One two-colored hat, to wear 3 different ways.
I knitted it in the round, but used a sly trick to do intarsia color-changes halfway around each row. The top is grafted with kitchener stitch for a seamless look (I hate sewing seams) and I-cord “antenna” sprout from the corners.
You and your tricky fancy intarsia color changes! 😉 Your knitting skills are amazing. I am SO impressed.
Okay, I am so behind on reading your blogs but I have no idea what ‘intarsia’ is. But the chapeau is darling!
Hi, Alice,
thanks for commenting! “Intarsia” is a knitting term for switching between large areas of color within an area of knitting. “Fair Isle” is another way of using two colors – but both are carried along together and switched every few stitches (picture those fancy Norwegian sweaters with reindeer or snowflake designs) rather than covering a large area with one color only. So now you know! 🙂
Love,
KT
Hello KT,
I am not a knitter, nor do I crochet. I do beadweaving & loomweaving The second I laid eyes on the ‘first knotted’ top hat, it won me over! Now when I saw the other ways in which you can knot the top hat in different ways, I loved it!
I am going to see if there’s the gal who used to teach awesome knitting at Joanne’ fabrics. I’ve never taken a single course there. She was a former employee there, so they allow her to teach. I’m going to be showing her the pattern and hopefully I can have this top hat put away until my daughters have children of their own which wont be for a very long time! They are 21 and soon to be 23 years of age. It’s too adorable. I saw only one full PDF page of instructions for the pattern. Is it actually just one full page or should there be more? I have reviewed your art, wearable and non-wearables and you certainly have such gorgeous talents! Keep it up!!! I’ll be coming back to watch your art! BTW, did your friend like the hat after t he loss of her hair? I had one on and threw it off. It was just too ‘hot’… Even biker’s cap was just too hot. I stayed home/indoors so I wouldn’t have to wear anything on my head. When I left the house, I wore a cap that best matched what I wore. I just finished 11.5 months of chemotherapy on June 4. And now just started a very LOW dosage of chemo which most likely will not result in hair loss this time. We’ll see. However, I thank you so very much for you’re extreme act of kindness in sharing this pattern! It’s far too cute for words! Smile
Hi – I love your chic Chicky Chapeau! Do you share your patterns or can I purchase it. I would love to try the inertia stitch. Thanks, Sharon
You can download the pattern here: http://www.sparkledesign.net/fidget/knitting-patterns/
Please note: I don’t recommend this as a first intarsia project. Try a flat project before attempting intarsia “in the round.”