I love that this colorway is called ‘cloudy with a chance of rainbows’. When you directly compare this color with the previous rainbow hats, these ones look a bit sad and dull, but on their own they are a lovely subdued rainbow. Both these rainbow hats and the previous bright ones are both from Knitpicks Felici.
I used this colorway to play with the zig-zag pattern I’d worked out with the previous rainbow yarn. Though the three adult sized hats may look the same, they vary in terms of the width of each stripe of color (done by using one, two or three skeins at once), and what type of increases I used. I had enough left over from the three adult hats to make two baby hats and finish off the leftovers.
These pictures were taken by putting the hats on my teapot! I am very pleased with my own ingenuity in figuring out that I could use my teapot as a head form, because I have been really struggling with taking hat pictures. For socks I have a foot model, and sweaters at least will lay flat on the ground, but hats…. They don’t lay flat unless I fold them, but then they look all long and impossibly narrow. If I lay them down and don’t try to force them flat, then I get all sorts of wrinkles and weird shadows. In theory I should be able to model them myself, and get pictures, but that requires availability of my photographer during daylight hours on a day that wants to cooperate (i.e. nice weather). Also, then they have to be able to fit my head. And my photographer is still learning the art of knitted object photography, so it typically takes 2-3 times longer than I feel like it should. (I don’t think he realized at the time that he was signing up to become my personal knitting photographer, so I can’t really complain, and I do try to take as many of my own pictures as possible…) So, if I am to continue with all of this hat knitting, I think I must go in search of a head model to join my foot model on the mantel.