What do you do with a single skein of cashmere when you don’t want wrist warmers or an ear warmer or a lacy scarf or a neckwarmer, and when it’s variegated so that some stitch patterns just won’t look right? What do you do when it’s been in your stash since January, and it was a luxury so you’d like to use it, but you’re not sure how? What do you do when you try to make a hat with it doubled up and it’s just not enough yarn, so you make a hat with it stranded single and it’s still not enough yarn?
I made a tassled baby hat in garter stitch.
Pattern: Cast on 33 stitches. Knit in garter stitch until you’re about out of yarn or it seems long enough. Fold in half and seam up the sides. Make and secure tassles.
Size: Newborn-ish — about 12″ circumference, but stretchy.
Yarn: Artyarns Cashmere 5 (100% cashmere; 102 yds. per 50 g. skein)
Yardage: About 85-90 yards.
Source: Circle of Yarns in Klamath Falls, OR
Needles: US 6 Denise circular needles
Gauge: About 5 stitches per inch?
Notes: So what if moms of newborns don’t want to hand wash cashmere? The hat is so cute that it’s worth it. And that’s all I have to say about that.
Awwwwwwwww! I have some single skeins that I can put to work! That hat looks adorable, but I love the doll even more.
Adorable!!!
Hey! Was there a whiff of inspiration for this style from Cleckheaton No. 951? If so, your all-garter stitch/tasseled design trumps it up surpassing it completely! I love the hat’s energy, from the simplicity of the form all aquiver and flowing with yarn color, to the dynamic tassels with their slyly mischevious air — it definitely looks like just what the yarn wanted to be! Great, great, subtley-composed-with-great-color photos. And what a cooperative model in that old old toddler chair.
So cute, i Love it!
Super cute!
This hat is so cute, it makes me want to have another Gwendolyn! Or meet some baby who isn’t in the pulling-off-all-hats stage. Great work!