when I was done with my scarf, I still had 2 skeins of the fab yarn (having bought all 4), so I started looking for a matching hat pattern. The very few entrelac hat pattern were, well, frightful. Pouffy beret types. Not me at all. Eventually, I did come across this fabulous hat and mitt set by Blacker Designs.
At first, I was going to knit it as is. But then while I was sitting at my weekly knitting clatch with my friend Melissa, she suggested and I agreed that I should change the cable band to create an entrelac band.
The one from the scarf was way too wide, so I cast on 10 and built it on triangles of 5 stitches instead of 8. Then i just kept following the pattern for size and picked up the 80 stitches recommended. Since I'm not a big fan of poofy hats, I did a K2T, K9 decrease pattern instead and got a much tighter fit.
Voila, the new and improved Entrelac Hat.
Tomorrow, the mitts!
It looks so great... I wish I had even the vaguest of crafty talent or interest!lol You do such great stuff!
Posted by: Julie | November 06, 2009 at 12:11 PM