Hats off

These hats - all gifts - were made using my free Fair Isle Hat pattern.

This one, a gift for my friend Natascha, is made from a merino-cashmere blend.



And these hats, which were made as a pair for a couple, were my first foray into knitting with the huge pile of research-trip yarn seen here.



The second hat used a slightly different pattern that I made up, which seemed to go with the first one without being too "matchy-matchy." I love this yarn, and am thinking I will make the Estes Vest from Interweave Knits Fall 2008 with it. I just finished the CPH (but I changed it up a bit) and will post pictures soon. Right now I am working on the Bulky Cabled Sweater by Glampyre, aka Stephanie Japel, but it is knitting up so quickly that I will be done really soon.

And now: