Lotsa fair isle hats
Joe, I promised you'd have your hat in Salt Lake City
long overdue:
I got on a hat kick at the end of spring and made a bunch of fair isle hats with some Wool Ease yarn that I bought (one skein each of Heather, Dk Gray, and Maroon). It was neat to create different designs and see how they turned out. Here is the result of all that designing and knitting. (Yes, Joe, I know I promised you a hat LONG ago -- I told you, you'd be climbing with it in Utah).
All the hats follow the same basic hat pattern that I've used before. I really like the pattern. Its very easy to knit, and adjust. So really you can have fun making it an interesting hat by doing all the fair isle or intarsia knitting.
There are all plane-hats. I love to pass time on flights by knitting. All of these hats were knit on my flights in April, May and June. I designed them using Microsoft Excel, and just started knitting. Each hat was done on the same guage, but with a slightly different number of cast-on stitches, ranging anywhere from 100 - 120.
Because all of these hats were knit in fair isle, the only real restriction to the patterns was that there only be 2 colors used on any given row, and that no color spanned more than 5 stitches (to prevent the yarn floating in the back from being carried too long). As with any fair isle project, be careful with your tension so you don't get any puckering as you change colors (thats the tricky part).
| Hat #1 - aka Joe's hat | |
the pattern:
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the hat:
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| Hat #2 - the squiggly hat | |
the pattern:
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the hat:
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| Hat #3 the white-ish hat (... it really needs a better name) | |
the pattern:
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the hat:
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| Hat #4 the stripey hat (AND! Its reversible!!) | |
the knit-side: 
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the purl-side:
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