It may be March, but it’s still cold enough that it feels perfectly appropriate to be sneaking in my third finished hat of the winter.
Like the first two, this is a Woolly Wormhead pattern – Vernalis, which seemed appropriate for an early spring hat.
The yarn is Marchmont, from the Yarn Yard, a lovely 100% merino 4-ply yarn with plenty of squishiness but enough stitch definition to for the cables and the lines of the decreases to show up clearly. I only had a 50g skein and was intially planning to use it for gloves, but the colourway is so similar to the Glasgow School Mitts I got from Roobeedoo that I thought I’d make a hat to go with them instead. I’d had Vernalis on my list of patterns to knit sometime for a while, and having knitted Woolly’s Symetrie from less than 50g of yarn in the autumn I was fairly confident that I would manage Vernalis from my single skein too (as I did, with 8g to spare).
It’s even sort-of reversible – I got poor T to take a whole load of photos of it this morning and didn’t realise until I took it off that I’d been wearing it inside out and poor T had to take a second set!
Very nice. Love the colour.
Thank you!
It looks lovely. And warm!
Thanks! I like sock yarn for hats, it’s warm without getting too hot when I’m walking like hats in heavier yarns can.
Beautiful!
Thanks! I think it will go nicely with the mitts. If it ever gets warm enough for fingerless mitts…