I’m a sock knitter-it’s in the name of this blog, ‘Amy Knits Socks’, my instagram name ‘amyknitssocks’, and my ravelry name ‘amythesock’. I knit socks pretty much all the time. Except for this year. This year, apparently, is the year of the hats. So many hats. I think it’s because they’re super fast. I can use up my stash and whip out a new hat so quickly! I can try out patterns on them, and by the time I’m tired of the pattern, the hat is done! So prepare yourselves, my friends, for tons of hats. Lots of them. Currently I’m churning out hats at a rate of a few per week…
This post, we will look at the batch of hats I made from Knitpicks worsted Felci yarn in the colorway Rainbow. I love this color-it is super bright, cheery and loud. So loud. I love knitting things for other people, because I can use colors like these that I would never wear (i.e. any color other than blue). I find knitting with such happy colors makes me happy too. I purchased 400g (4 skeins) of this yarn just this past November, because it looked too fun not to play with. These are the result:
I started with a basic ribbed hat, to get a feel for the color repeat and such, before branching out into all sorts of other nonsense. I purchased this yarn because of it’s bright, cheerful rainbow colors, but I didn’t just want to knit plain ribbed hats, so I thought I’d try some patterns. My first try was the hat with floats, trying to see if I could add a bit of visual interest. I feel like the hat is still dominated by the stripes, though not as much as the cabled hat that I knit next. I think the cables get pretty lost in the colorful stripes, so I then tried to figure out what pattern would work with the colors, rather than against it. The lace diagonals was my first attempt. I really like how the top of it turned out-one of the things I strive for with hats is to make the top visually appealing, and I really like the star that shows up on the top of the lace hat, as well as the entrelac hat that I knit next. The last pattern I tried was the zig-zag hat, and I’m really pleased with how the colors make the pattern. The zig zags and the entrelac hats are my favorite, because the colorway works so well with those patterns.