And very colourful. I think I’m addicted. I love love love fairisle and everything about this hat.
This was my first attempt at fairisle and I’m childishly excited about the result – the flowery motif, the shaping, the colours, everything is very pleasing. The pattern is well written and I found it zipped along nicely. I found it very satisfying to see the pattern emerge and develop. It was the same sense of satisfaction that you can get from lace knitting but for some reason I found it a more mysterious process so kept looking at it and beaming.
I am now queuing fairisle things like crazy on ravelry, turning out stash drawers at home to try and find good colour combinations for future projects and planning mittens, hats, and incorporating motifs into everything I knit. It is all about stranding.
I originally bought this yarn to make some squirrelly mitts but am pleased that I started with a larger project because it was a bit less fiddly. And really it isn’t as hard as I thought – I have been always very intimated by colourwork, but I sat with my mum one Sunday afternoon and practiced on a swatch with a range of books, instructions, tea and encouragement. I even discovered that although I think I’m very good at stranding while drinking sherry or wine with festive cheer, the end result suggests otherwise.
Pattern: Selbu Modern by Kate Gagnon
Yarn: Rowan Scottish Tweed 4-ply in Mallard and Thatch (I’m very fond of the names of the colourway) Needle Size: 2.75 and 3.00mm addi circulars.
Ravelled: here.
